 | Michael C. Adams - 1990 - 200 頁
...the birds which are idty singing around us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters,...nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey. . . ,"22 Applying this argument to human society Leonard Wood, one of America's leading soldiers, asserted... | |
 | George Levine - 1991 - 334 頁
...the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects, or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters,...it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year" (Origin, p. 116). The passage parallels dozens in nineteenth-century writing, from Ruskin's "pathetic... | |
 | Matthew H. Nitecki, Doris V. Nitecki - 1992 - 282 頁
...that birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters,...nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey. (1859:62) This is a narrite of intermediate reality. Finally, with the next sentence, Darwin moves... | |
 | Ilse Nina Bulhof - 1992 - 224 頁
...the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters,...their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey.(74) Malthus had already launched the calculating principle which Darwin used in The Origin of... | |
 | Dorothy Mermin - 1993 - 212 頁
...the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters,...superabundant, it is not so at all seasons of each recurrent year.19 Vision similar to this one works in the novel to give negative value to feminine... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - 1994 - 484 頁
...the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters,...nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey. But if Darwin relied on metaphors to enlighten his readers, he also followed this good strategy in... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1996 - 382 頁
...the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters,...it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year. I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including... | |
 | Pascal Acot - 1998 - 458 頁
...the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life ; or we forget how largely these songsters,...it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year. I should premise that I use the term Straggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including... | |
 | Stephanie A. Nelson Boston University - 1998 - 273 頁
...vision of nature is reflected in a perhaps unlikely source: insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters,...we do not always bear in mind that, though food may now be superabundant, it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year. . . . All that we can do... | |
 | Charles T. Rubin - 2000 - 282 頁
...the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters,...superabundant, it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year.22 But if we miss it, we miss the fundamental fact of life — that is his message. The Philosophical... | |
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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food ; we do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life ; or we forget... 
