 | 1843 - 628 pages
...delightful daya of early spring, which give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year. All the workmen rested at...through the trees, a wide prospect of the bay and opposite shore. There was not a wrinkle on the water, nor a cloud in the sky, and the branches were... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 638 pages
...delightful days of early •pring, which give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year. All the workmen rested at midday, and I «cut to enjoy my half hour alone on a mossy knoll in the neighborsi;; wood, which commands through... | |
 | 1848 - 916 pages
...delightful days of early spring, which give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year. All the workmen rested at mid-day, and I went to enjoy my halthour alone on a mossy bank on the neighbouring wood, which commands through the trees a wide prospect... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 580 pages
...delightful days of early spring, which give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year. All the workmen rested at midday, and I went to enjoy my half hour alone on a mossy knoll in the neighbouring wood, which commands through the trees a wide... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...large part of it. His life as a mason had commenced on the day previous to that of which he speaks : " d then burying the stick to rot in muck!" Anoiher of the absurd superstitions of the seventeenth neighboring wood, which commands through the trees a wide prospect of the bay and the opposite shore.... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year. All the workmen rested nt mid-day, and I went to enjoy my half-hour, alone on...There was not a wrinkle on the water, nor a cloud iu the sky, and the branches were as moveless in the calm as if they had been traced on canvass. From... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...delightful days of early spring, which give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year . . . All the workmen rested at mid-day, and I went to enjoy my half hour, alone, on a mossy knoll in the neighbouring wood, which commands through tlu1 trees a wide... | |
 | Peter Bayne - Authors, English - 1860 - 432 pages
...Sandstone, there occurs the following passage. His life as a stone-mason had begun on the previous day: — "All the workmen rested at midday, and I went to enjoy my half-hour alone on a mossy knoll in the neighboring wood, which commands through the trees a wide prospect of the bay and the opposite shore.... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 454 pages
...workmen rested nt midd.iy, and I went to enjoy my halfhour alone on n mossy knoll in the neighboring wood, which commands through the trees a wide prospect...opposite shore. There was not a wrinkle on the water, HIM u cloud in the sky, and the branches were as moveless in iho culm us if they hud been traced on... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 378 pages
...delightful days of early spring which give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild itml genial in the better half of the year. All the workmen rested at midday, and I went to enjoy my half hour alone on a mossy knoll in the neighboring wood, which commands through the trees a wide prospect... | |
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... fields; but the sun rose in a clear atmosphere, and the day mellowed, as it advanced, into one of those delightful days of early spring, which give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year. All the workmen... 
