The Book of the Seasons, Or The Calender of Nature |
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Page 3
... rock , or bank , the snow- drift accumulates . It curls over the tops of walls and hedges in fantastic wildness , forming often the most perfect curves , resembling the scrolls of Ionic capitals , and showing beneath romantic caves and ...
... rock , or bank , the snow- drift accumulates . It curls over the tops of walls and hedges in fantastic wildness , forming often the most perfect curves , resembling the scrolls of Ionic capitals , and showing beneath romantic caves and ...
Page 21
... rocks in the lonely ocean , the craggy and misty isles of the Orkneys and Shetlands , where others congregate in my- riads ; or the wild - swan , which sometimes pays a visit to our largest and most secluded waters , rewinging its way ...
... rocks in the lonely ocean , the craggy and misty isles of the Orkneys and Shetlands , where others congregate in my- riads ; or the wild - swan , which sometimes pays a visit to our largest and most secluded waters , rewinging its way ...
Page 35
... rocks , pier - heads , houses , and even over the loftiest towers and churches too , as I have seen it , to an amazing extent , till the water ran down the walls like rain , and the windows , at a great distance from the beach , were ...
... rocks , pier - heads , houses , and even over the loftiest towers and churches too , as I have seen it , to an amazing extent , till the water ran down the walls like rain , and the windows , at a great distance from the beach , were ...
Page 69
... rock too dangerous to climb ; sticks split at the end are thrust into hollow in wall , eaves , every or tree - trunk , to twist out the hidden nest ; and I myself recollect being held by the heels over an old coal - pit sixty yards deep ...
... rock too dangerous to climb ; sticks split at the end are thrust into hollow in wall , eaves , every or tree - trunk , to twist out the hidden nest ; and I myself recollect being held by the heels over an old coal - pit sixty yards deep ...
Page 80
... forest were darkened with boughs , which reflected from the ground gave a sha- dowy lustre to the red rocks . Towns , turrets , battlements , and high pinnacles of churches , castles and of every fair city , seemed to be 80 APRIL .
... forest were darkened with boughs , which reflected from the ground gave a sha- dowy lustre to the red rocks . Towns , turrets , battlements , and high pinnacles of churches , castles and of every fair city , seemed to be 80 APRIL .
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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