This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...from the dove general," Mr. Phil. Robinson tells us "the poets employ the dove particular--the ring dove, the stock dove, and the turtle dove. But what relation each species bears to the other the poets never considered themselves at liberty to determine. Watts makes 'the turtle' the opposite sex of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...from the dove general," Mr. Phil. Robinson tells us "the poets employ the dove particular--the ring dove, the stock dove, and the turtle dove. But what relation each species bears to the other the poets never considered themselves at liberty to determine. Watts makes 'the turtle' the opposite sex of 'the dove'--' no more the turtle leaves the dove'--but allows at the same time by implication the existence of a female turtle; while Cowper makes it the female, though elsewhere, with Spenser, making it the male. Thomson uses the stock dove as the male of the turtle, Cowper as the male of the ring dove, and Wordsworth as the female of it. As a general rule, ring doves are ' he' and turtles 'she' (chiefly widows); while stock doves are one or the other, as poetical exigencies require. But the ultimate outcome of this reciprocity of sexes and species is a ring--stock--turtle--dove, as elastic in its properties as even poets could desire, and as variously endowed as any Pandora-Proteus." To return to stern facts again, farmers shoot the ring dove when they can; firstly, because he is fond of peas, and secondly, because he loves turnip tops, especially when the weather is hard. It would take more amiable effrontery than I possess to deny these charges. Pulse of every sort or kind has an irresistible attraction to Columbian nature, and is searched for eagerly and devoured greedily wherever it is obtainable. While there can thus be no doubt that wood pigeons will eat all the peas or tares they can find, I am not quite sure, from my own observations, whether they actually shell them for themselves. If they cannot and do not, then half their guilt is purged at once, for it is obvious that the consumption of shed peas--no good to any...
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