The Book of the Seasons, Or The Calender of Nature |
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... spirit in which he wrote , when he looked at man's life from its cheerful aspect , has never disappeared from this country . There belong to every succeeding century many writers to whom we can turn to produce in us the same sense of ...
... spirit in which he wrote , when he looked at man's life from its cheerful aspect , has never disappeared from this country . There belong to every succeeding century many writers to whom we can turn to produce in us the same sense of ...
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... spirit which it is more important to cherish in a commercial people , as we are , than a spirit of attachment to Nature . Were it not that it had been fostered by our inestimable literature a literature which has caught its noble tone ...
... spirit which it is more important to cherish in a commercial people , as we are , than a spirit of attachment to Nature . Were it not that it had been fostered by our inestimable literature a literature which has caught its noble tone ...
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... spirit which , however , as commerce advances , becomes more and more endangered by the very circumstance of our population being engulphed in great towns . Books can and do penetrate into every nook of our most extended and crowded ...
... spirit which , however , as commerce advances , becomes more and more endangered by the very circumstance of our population being engulphed in great towns . Books can and do penetrate into every nook of our most extended and crowded ...
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... spirit of the world , ) are found invariably ardent lovers of Nature . To them it is a passion and an appetite — their voice sounds from antiquity in Flumina amem sylvasque inglorius . Need I advert to our older poets , who are full of ...
... spirit of the world , ) are found invariably ardent lovers of Nature . To them it is a passion and an appetite — their voice sounds from antiquity in Flumina amem sylvasque inglorius . Need I advert to our older poets , who are full of ...
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... spirit 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 ...
... spirit 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 ...
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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