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Page viii
... Summer - Darkening hues of Foliage - Variety and beauty of Foliage - The Horse - chestnut - Beauty of June weather - Universal life , - - - - greenness and vigour - Cruel and wanton havoc made amongst viii CONTENTS .
... Summer - Darkening hues of Foliage - Variety and beauty of Foliage - The Horse - chestnut - Beauty of June weather - Universal life , - - - - greenness and vigour - Cruel and wanton havoc made amongst viii CONTENTS .
Page ix
William Howitt. greenness and vigour - Cruel and wanton havoc made amongst young birds at this season - Gardens in their prime - Summer pleasures - Delicious evenings - Mowing -Green Fruits - Grasses in flower - Hay - harvest com ...
William Howitt. greenness and vigour - Cruel and wanton havoc made amongst young birds at this season - Gardens in their prime - Summer pleasures - Delicious evenings - Mowing -Green Fruits - Grasses in flower - Hay - harvest com ...
Page xvii
... amongst their contemporaries ; but our own times furnish , perhaps , a more remark- able instance in Lord Byron . Unlike theirs , his soul had not been soothed into wisdom and nourished into power in the silence of retire- b ment , and ...
... amongst their contemporaries ; but our own times furnish , perhaps , a more remark- able instance in Lord Byron . Unlike theirs , his soul had not been soothed into wisdom and nourished into power in the silence of retire- b ment , and ...
Page xix
... amongst our recent or living poets those who have displayed a deep sense of the beauty and power of Nature , would be to enumerate all who are by any means distin- guished ; but Scott , Southey , Coleridge , Camp- bell , and Rogers ...
... amongst our recent or living poets those who have displayed a deep sense of the beauty and power of Nature , would be to enumerate all who are by any means distin- guished ; but Scott , Southey , Coleridge , Camp- bell , and Rogers ...
Page xxii
... amongst the greatest benefactors of the human race . It is with unspeakable delight that I behold every branch of Natural History now prose- cuted amongst us with the keenest ardour and success ; and that the many able minds engaged in ...
... amongst the greatest benefactors of the human race . It is with unspeakable delight that I behold every branch of Natural History now prose- cuted amongst us with the keenest ardour and success ; and that the many able minds engaged in ...
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aliis Alpine amongst autumn Azalea banks beauty bees behold birds blue bogs boughs Broad-leaved Butterfly CALENDAR OF BRITISH Chalky Cnicus coast comes April comes Aug comes Dec comes Nov comes Oct Common corn Corn-fields creatures cum mult Curruca delightful Ditches earth eggs Eringo Fieldfare fields flowers forest fresh Fritillary frost Fumitory Gardens Globe-flower goes Feb goes Sept Goosander grass green Haunts Hawkweed heart Hipparchia Hornbeam insects John's-wort larvæ leaves Marsh MARY HOWITT Meadows and pastures Moist month Moth mountains mult Nature nest numbers Orchis Phlox plants pleasant poets Polyommatus pools Primula Purple Rest-Harrow Rhododendron rivers rocks Sandy places Saxifrage Scotland Sea-shore season SELECT CALENDAR snow species Spiræa spirit spring Star of Bethlehem streams summer sweet thou trees tures Viburnum vulgaris Waste ground Watery places White wild Willow winter Woods and hedges Yellow young Zinnia