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... trees . The chilling night - dews fall : . . . . away , retire , What time the glow - worm lights her amorous fire . ( 8 ) Selborne : Nov : 3 : 1774 . DEAR SAM , When I sat down to write to you in verse , my whole design was to shew you ...
... trees . The chilling night - dews fall : . . . . away , retire , What time the glow - worm lights her amorous fire . ( 8 ) Selborne : Nov : 3 : 1774 . DEAR SAM , When I sat down to write to you in verse , my whole design was to shew you ...
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... trees have not lost a leaf ! We had steady frost on to the 25th when the therm in the morning was down to 10 with us , and at Newton only to 21 ! Strong frost continued till the 31st when some tendency to thaw was observed : and by Jan ...
... trees have not lost a leaf ! We had steady frost on to the 25th when the therm in the morning was down to 10 with us , and at Newton only to 21 ! Strong frost continued till the 31st when some tendency to thaw was observed : and by Jan ...
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... outline of our prospect that way : but shall gain 60 feet of Horizon . Jupiter wests so fast that at sun - set he is not much above these trees . Snow covers the ground , Selborne , Jan : 1st : 1791 . ( TO NEW LETTERS . XXI.
... outline of our prospect that way : but shall gain 60 feet of Horizon . Jupiter wests so fast that at sun - set he is not much above these trees . Snow covers the ground , Selborne , Jan : 1st : 1791 . ( TO NEW LETTERS . XXI.
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... trees . Do you know any thing about this person ? He is an agreeable corre- spondent . He is such an admirer of oaks , that he has been twice to see the great oak in the Holt . D ' . Chander , and family , who came at first only with an ...
... trees . Do you know any thing about this person ? He is an agreeable corre- spondent . He is such an admirer of oaks , that he has been twice to see the great oak in the Holt . D ' . Chander , and family , who came at first only with an ...
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... tree , in the great storm in the year 1703 , yet , when felled , contained eight loads of timber ; and being too bulky for carriage , was sawn off at seven feet above the butt , where it measured near eight feet in the diameter . This ...
... tree , in the great storm in the year 1703 , yet , when felled , contained eight loads of timber ; and being too bulky for carriage , was sawn off at seven feet above the butt , where it measured near eight feet in the diameter . This ...
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Сторінка 68 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Сторінка 523 - And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Сторінка 23 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffused into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose; Rural confusion! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie; while others stand Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface.
Сторінка 78 - Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide...
Сторінка 290 - Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, JOHN MILTON. 345 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Сторінка 96 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Сторінка 251 - Yet there is a season of the year (usually the beginning- of June) when his exertions are remarkable. He then walks on tiptoe, and is stirring by five in the morning ; and, traversing the garden, examines every wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant field. The motives that impel him to undertake these rambles seem to be of the amorous kind : his fancy then becomes intent on sexual...
Сторінка 137 - ... way. I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices : for, as soon as the good old lady comes in sight who has waited on it for more than thirty years, it hobbles towards its benefactress with awkward alacrity ; but remains inattentive to strangers. Thus not only "the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib...
Сторінка 147 - Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight.
Сторінка 121 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...