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Satirical print from 1830 depicting a goose lamenting the loss of the Commons to Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, a Duke and King William IV. "The Goose and the Common", also referred to as "Stealing the Common from the Goose", is a poem written by an unknown author that makes a social commentary on the social injustice caused by the privatization of common land during the ...
African penduline-tit (Anthoscopus caroli) hanging from the end of a branch and gleaning.. Gleaning is a feeding strategy by birds and bats in which they catch invertebrate prey, mainly arthropods, by plucking them from foliage or the ground, from crevices such as rock faces and under the eaves of houses, or even, as in the case of ticks and lice, from living animals.
Portal:Birds/Quotes/19 People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl - and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.
The poem’s writing process began in the second half of 1796. [7] [8] In its earliest form, the work existed under the title “Description of a Beggar”. [7]A part of the text, which was originally situated after sixty-six lines of today’s version of “The Old Cumberland Beggar”, was removed from the poem and made into a separate work, “Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch”. [2]
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In Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, the poet states: . I have said that each of these poems has a purpose. I have also informed my Reader what this purpose will be found principally to be: namely to illustrate the manner in which our feelings and ideas are associated in a state of excitement.
Lions safety Brian Branch was ejected for a helmet-to-helmet hit during Sunday's NFC North showdown against the Green Bay Packers that Detroit eventually won, 24-14.. After he was flagged, he drew ...
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