The Book of the Seasons, Or The Calender of Nature |
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... stream of feeling which runs in a channel too broad to be easily stopped towards a relish for all in the varied life of man that is analogous to the peculiar beauty of nature in England . The only considerable poet of Puritanism in ...
... stream of feeling which runs in a channel too broad to be easily stopped towards a relish for all in the varied life of man that is analogous to the peculiar beauty of nature in England . The only considerable poet of Puritanism in ...
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... 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 , as in other respects , - the highest honours ; and ...
... 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 , as in other respects , - the highest honours ; and ...
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... stream , and the rushing of the forest , the poet thinks that he hears a kindred voice of sorrow or of gladness ; as if spirits and feelings like our own were calling to us from afar , or seek- ing to sympathise and communicate with us ...
... stream , and the rushing of the forest , the poet thinks that he hears a kindred voice of sorrow or of gladness ; as if spirits and feelings like our own were calling to us from afar , or seek- ing to sympathise and communicate with us ...
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... streams , his own tranquil and bene- volent piety . And to our Naturalists , what do we not owe ! Every one of them who assists to turn the attention of our youth to subjects which must lead them out to the country , be he but the ...
... streams , his own tranquil and bene- volent piety . And to our Naturalists , what do we not owe ! Every one of them who assists to turn the attention of our youth to subjects which must lead them out to the country , be he but the ...
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... streams , or pools , boys have great sport in breaking the ice and drawing out these poor frozen creatures . I have seen , on such occasions , eels and other fish of a considerable size taken out ; and I have seen , too , fishes frozen ...
... streams , or pools , boys have great sport in breaking the ice and drawing out these poor frozen creatures . I have seen , on such occasions , eels and other fish of a considerable size taken out ; and I have seen , too , fishes frozen ...
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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