The Book of the Seasons, Or The Calender of Nature |
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Page v
... tures ; which , as a Calendar of Nature , should be comprehensive and complete in itself ; which , on being taken up by the lover of Nature at the opening of each month , should lay before him in prospect all the objects and appearances ...
... tures ; which , as a Calendar of Nature , should be comprehensive and complete in itself ; which , on being taken up by the lover of Nature at the opening of each month , should lay before him in prospect all the objects and appearances ...
Page xxi
... tures will allow them to approach us . It is for the purpose of listening to these tones , and of holding mysterious converse with the soul of Nature , that every great poet is a lover of solitude ! " Therefore Blessings be with them ...
... tures will allow them to approach us . It is for the purpose of listening to these tones , and of holding mysterious converse with the soul of Nature , that every great poet is a lover of solitude ! " Therefore Blessings be with them ...
Page 8
... ture , great and small . The poacher and the gamekeeper are equally on the alert , while it lies freshly upon the ground ; the one to track game , the other vermin ; and thousands of pole- cats , weasels , stoats , rats , otters ...
... ture , great and small . The poacher and the gamekeeper are equally on the alert , while it lies freshly upon the ground ; the one to track game , the other vermin ; and thousands of pole- cats , weasels , stoats , rats , otters ...
Page 10
... the phenomena and fea- tures of the season . Every sound comes to the ear with a novel and surprising distinct- ness . The low of cattle ; the rattle of far - off wheels ; the hollow tread of approaching feet ; and 10 JANUARY .
... the phenomena and fea- tures of the season . Every sound comes to the ear with a novel and surprising distinct- ness . The low of cattle ; the rattle of far - off wheels ; the hollow tread of approaching feet ; and 10 JANUARY .
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... ture of our first mother , pursuing her pleasant labours in the first garden , issuing from her bower at Adam's call , - Awake ! the morning shines , and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime to mark how spring Our tender plants ...
... ture of our first mother , pursuing her pleasant labours in the first garden , issuing from her bower at Adam's call , - Awake ! the morning shines , and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime to mark how spring Our tender plants ...
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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