 I sit with all the windows and the door wide open, and am regaled with the scent of every flower, in a garden as full of flowers as I have known how to make it. We keep no bees, but if I lived in a hive, I should hardly hear more of their music. All the...  The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 354edited by - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 480 pages
...garden as full of flowers as I have known how to make it. We keep no bees, but if I lived in a hive, I should hardly hear more of their music. All the bees...monotonous, is as agreeable to my ear as the whistling of my linnets. All the sounds that Nature utters are delightful, at least in this country. — Letter to... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 472 pages
...garden as full of flowers as I have known how to make it. We keep no bees, but if I lived in a hive, I should hardly hear more of their music. All the bees...monotonous, is as agreeable to my ear as the whistling of my linnets. All the sounds that Nature utters are delightful, at least in this country. — Letter to... | |
 | Arthur Max Hantsche - Nature in literature - 1901 - 160 pages
...Briefe. Alle Bienen der Nachbarschaft haben sich auf seinen bunten Beeten zu Gaste geladen. » They pay me for the honey they get out of it by a hum,...which though rather monotonous is as agreeable to my ears as the whistling of my linnets. All the sounds of nature are delightful, at least in this country.... | |
 | Hunt - 1903 - 436 pages
...bées in thé neighbourhood resort to a bed of mignonette opposite to thé window, and pay me for thé honey they get out of it by a hum which, though rather monotonous, is as agreeable to my car as thé whistling of my linnets. Ail thé sounds that Nature utters are delightful, at least in... | |
 | William Cowper, Thomas Wright - Authors, English - 1904 - 508 pages
...garden as full of flowers as I have known how to make it. We keep no bees, but if I lived in a hive I should hardly hear more of their music. All the bees...monotonous, is as agreeable to my ear as the whistling of my linnets. All the sounds that nature utters are delightful — at least in this country. I should not... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...garden as full of flowers as I have known how to make it. We keep no bees, but if I lived in a hive I should hardly hear more of their music. All the bees in the neighborhood resort to a bed of mignonette opposite to the window, and pay me for the honey they get... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...garden as full of flowers as I have known how to make it. We keep no bees, but if I lived in a hive I should hardly hear more of their music. All the bees in the neighborhood resort to a bed of mignonette opposite to the window, and pay me for the honey they get... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...garden as full of flowers as I have known how to make it. We keep no bees, but if I lived in a hive I should hardly hear more of their music. All the bees in the neighborhood resort to a bed of mignonette opposite to the window, and pay me for the honey they get... | |
 | G. Clifford Dent - English language - 1914 - 312 pages
...garden as full of flowers as I have known how to make it. We keep no bees, but if I lived in a hive I should hardly hear more of their music. All the bees...monotonous, is as agreeable to my ear as the whistling of my linnets. All the sounds that nature utters are delightful — at least in this country. I should not,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1915 - 338 pages
...have known how to make it. We keep no bees, but if I lived in a hive I could hardly have more of then- music. All the bees in the neighbourhood resort to...which, though rather monotonous, is as agreeable to my ears as the whistling of my linnets. All the sounds that nature utters are delightful, at least in... | |
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