"Entomological" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Lyell once told me how difficult Murchison found it to restrain himself from impatience, when his companion's attention was drawn aside by his entomological ardour. In an early letter, indeed, we find that Murchison often expressed a wish that Lyell's sisters had been with them to attend to the insect-collecting and thus leave Lyell free for ...
— The Coming of Evolution - The Story of a Great Revolution in Science • John W. (John Wesley) Judd
... weary and Jaded, with hunger opprest, In a hut they chew goat's flesh, and court gentle rest; But entomological hosts have conspired To drive sleep from ...
— Sagittulae, Random Verses • E. W. Bowling
... different. Of such common cant of criticism I extract a characteristic passage from one of the reviews of this work, that in this year's Athenaeum for February 10th: "He (the author) would have geological landscape painters, dendrologic, meteorologic, and doubtless entomologic, ichthyologic, every kind of physiologic painter united in the same person; yet, alas, for true poetic art among all these learned Thebans! No; landscape painting must not be reduced to mere portraiture of inanimate substances, Denner-like portraiture of the earth's face. * * * * * Ancient ...
— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin |
