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Page vii
... Darkness - Snows - Intense Frost - Snow - storms in the Mountains - Pleasures of the British Fireside - Miseries of the Poor - Continued Frost - Immense destruction of Vermin , Birds , etc. at this season Bird - moping- Walking in ...
... Darkness - Snows - Intense Frost - Snow - storms in the Mountains - Pleasures of the British Fireside - Miseries of the Poor - Continued Frost - Immense destruction of Vermin , Birds , etc. at this season Bird - moping- Walking in ...
Page xvii
... dark Surrounds me , from the cheerful ways of men Cut off , and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works , to me expunged and rased , And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out . PARADISE LOST , b ...
... dark Surrounds me , from the cheerful ways of men Cut off , and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works , to me expunged and rased , And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out . PARADISE LOST , b ...
Page xix
... dark majesty , amid the winds , and crags , and dashing streams of mountain moorlands , ―must each have his own appropriate niche ; -the names of Mrs. Hemans , Miss Bowles , and Miss Mitford , amongst our female writers , claim in this ...
... dark majesty , amid the winds , and crags , and dashing streams of mountain moorlands , ―must each have his own appropriate niche ; -the names of Mrs. Hemans , Miss Bowles , and Miss Mitford , amongst our female writers , claim in this ...
Page 5
... darkness , -the lover's even- ing visit , -song , wine , the wild tale told to the listening circle , or the unfolded stores of polite literature , making each a little paradise ! Then to turn from the bright side of the picture to the dark ...
... darkness , -the lover's even- ing visit , -song , wine , the wild tale told to the listening circle , or the unfolded stores of polite literature , making each a little paradise ! Then to turn from the bright side of the picture to the dark ...
Page 12
... dark boles here and there contrasting strongly with the white and sparkling drapery of the boughs above , amongst which the wan- dering birds fly , scattering the rime around them in snowy showers . There is not a thicket but has ...
... dark boles here and there contrasting strongly with the white and sparkling drapery of the boughs above , amongst which the wan- dering birds fly , scattering the rime around them in snowy showers . There is not a thicket but has ...
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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