The Book of the Seasons, Or The Calender of Nature |
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Page xx
... behold Is full of blessings . Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk ; And let the misty mountain winds be free To blow against thee ; and in after - years , When these wild ecstasies shall be matured Into a sober ...
... behold Is full of blessings . Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk ; And let the misty mountain winds be free To blow against thee ; and in after - years , When these wild ecstasies shall be matured Into a sober ...
Page xxii
... 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 it are becoming more and more aware that their favourite pursuits have a far higher claim ...
... 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 it are becoming more and more aware that their favourite pursuits have a far higher claim ...
Page xxiii
... behold little children endeavouring to extract amusement from the very dust , and straws , and pebbles of squalid alleys , shut out from the free and glorious countenance of Nature , and think how differently the children of the ...
... behold little children endeavouring to extract amusement from the very dust , and straws , and pebbles of squalid alleys , shut out from the free and glorious countenance of Nature , and think how differently the children of the ...
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... behold all the calm pageantry of the glittering host of stars , of moonlight and of clouds . The bowers of a good modern garden invite us from the fierce heat of noon to the most delicious of oratories , in dry summer eves , to the most ...
... behold all the calm pageantry of the glittering host of stars , of moonlight and of clouds . The bowers of a good modern garden invite us from the fierce heat of noon to the most delicious of oratories , in dry summer eves , to the most ...
Page 105
... behold , that of one tree with another is not the less so . One is nearly full clothed , - other is mottled with grey and green , strug- gling as it were which should have the pre- dominance , and another is still perfectly naked . The ...
... behold , that of one tree with another is not the less so . One is nearly full clothed , - other is mottled with grey and green , strug- gling as it were which should have the pre- dominance , and another is still perfectly naked . The ...
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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