The Book of the Seasons, Or The Calender of Nature |
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... delightful while it lasts , although the delight may be a sign of the weakness of mortality . Let a reader , for instance , of Butler's Analogy turn when he is tired to Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield . He seems to have got out of a vast ...
... delightful while it lasts , although the delight may be a sign of the weakness of mortality . Let a reader , for instance , of Butler's Analogy turn when he is tired to Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield . He seems to have got out of a vast ...
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... delight every natural haunt , and cast round their labours the beaming halo of genius , at- tracting thousands to the objects of their ad- miration , must be classed amongst the greatest benefactors of the human race . It is with ...
... delight every natural haunt , and cast round their labours the beaming halo of genius , at- tracting thousands to the objects of their ad- miration , must be classed amongst the greatest benefactors of the human race . It is with ...
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... delightful observation ; and monotonous as it is frequently called , the very variety of the weather itself presents an almost endless source of novelty and beauty . There is first what is called - A GREAT STORM . Frost , keen , biting ...
... delightful observation ; and monotonous as it is frequently called , the very variety of the weather itself presents an almost endless source of novelty and beauty . There is first what is called - A GREAT STORM . Frost , keen , biting ...
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... delightful , while sitting in the midst of our family , or friendly group , in actual possession of the pleasures just enumerated , not only to contemplate our own happiness , but to send our thoughts abroad over the whole land ! To ...
... delightful , while sitting in the midst of our family , or friendly group , in actual possession of the pleasures just enumerated , not only to contemplate our own happiness , but to send our thoughts abroad over the whole land ! To ...
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... delightful things which human art has prepared for our recreation and refreshment . To say nothing of the common - places , that a garden was first con- structed by God himself , —that in the shades of a glorious garden our first ...
... delightful things which human art has prepared for our recreation and refreshment . To say nothing of the common - places , that a garden was first con- structed by God himself , —that in the shades of a glorious garden our first ...
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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