Pictures of Rustic LandscapeLongmans, 1895 - 238 páginas |
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... loved the brimming wave that swam Thro ' quiet meadows round the mill , The sleepy pool above the dam , The pool beneath it never still . ' The Miller's Daughter Lord Tennyson 237 AT THE BROOKSIDE . B ' A water - ousel xiv CONTENTS .
... loved the brimming wave that swam Thro ' quiet meadows round the mill , The sleepy pool above the dam , The pool beneath it never still . ' The Miller's Daughter Lord Tennyson 237 AT THE BROOKSIDE . B ' A water - ousel xiv CONTENTS .
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... never know what they are going to do until their flowers come forth . As Bottom would fain have been everybody , so the orchid aims at being all flowers . It is a mere temperament without intellect , and some- times endeavours to ...
... never know what they are going to do until their flowers come forth . As Bottom would fain have been everybody , so the orchid aims at being all flowers . It is a mere temperament without intellect , and some- times endeavours to ...
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... never- theless I will make it as short as I can , by my hopes and wishes . And my good Master , I will not forget the doctrine which you told me Socrates taught his scholars , that they should not think to be honored so much for being ...
... never- theless I will make it as short as I can , by my hopes and wishes . And my good Master , I will not forget the doctrine which you told me Socrates taught his scholars , that they should not think to be honored so much for being ...
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... sweet kinds ' of food , were what he preferred to eat but he had ' this virtue , ' says Jocelin , ' he never changed the dish ( ferculum ) you set before him , be what it might . ' Once when I , still a novice , happened.
... sweet kinds ' of food , were what he preferred to eat but he had ' this virtue , ' says Jocelin , ' he never changed the dish ( ferculum ) you set before him , be what it might . ' Once when I , still a novice , happened.
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... never meddled with hunting , ' that I saw . ' In an opening of the woods ; ' - for the country was still dark with wood in those days ; and Scotland itself still rustled shaggy and leafy , like a damp black American Forest , with ...
... never meddled with hunting , ' that I saw . ' In an opening of the woods ; ' - for the country was still dark with wood in those days ; and Scotland itself still rustled shaggy and leafy , like a damp black American Forest , with ...
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aisle ANGLERS beauty birds breath chancel chimney Chiswick church clouds colour Corydon cottage creature Damon dark delight door dwellings earth ECLOGUE England English eyes fancy farmer feeling feet fields flock flowers foxglove garden GIPSY GOING A JOURNEY grass happy heare heart hence Henry VII highwayman hill itinerant JOHN DAVIDSON labour land landscape latter living lock look Lord Mary Russell Mitford meadows mind musing nature never o'er once parish Philautus pine-apple pleased pleasure quiet rest rich Richard Jefferies river roof round SCHOLAR GIPSY scholars seemed seen shepherd side silent sing Snow SOMERSET spring Stagira straunge stream STURGES BOURNE'S BILLS summer sunshine sweet Sydney Smith tall Thames thee things thou hast thought Tom Brown trees village voice WALKING TOURS wild William Hazlitt William Wordsworth winter woods
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Página 225 - mid their drink and clatter, he would fly. And I myself seem half to know thy looks? And put the shepherds, wanderer, on thy trace...
Página 225 - For most, I know, thou lov'st retired ground! Thee at the ferry Oxford riders blithe, Returning home on summer-nights, have met Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe, Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet, As the slow punt swings round...
Página 223 - Screen'd is this nook o'er the high, half-reap'd field, And here till sun-down, shepherd ! will I be. Through the thick corn the scarlet poppies peep, And round green roots and yellowing stalks I see Pale pink convolvulus in tendrils creep...
Página 29 - Birth, Are but the fading blossoms of the earth. I would be great, but that the sun doth still Level his rays against the rising hill: I would be high, but see the proudest oak Most subject to the rending thunder-stroke: I would be rich, but see men, too unkind, Dig in the bowels of the richest mind: I would be wise, but that I often see The fox suspected, whilst the ass goes free...
Página 95 - ONE of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey ; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room ; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me.
Página 223 - Through the thick corn the scarlet poppies peep, And round green roots and yellowing stalks I see Pale blue convolvulus in tendrils creep: And air-swept lindens yield Their scent, and rustle down their perfumed showers Of bloom on the bent grass where I am laid, And bower me from the August sun with shade...
Página 71 - SWEET country life, to such unknown Whose lives are others', not their own ! But serving courts and cities, be Less happy, less enjoying thee. Thou never plough'st the ocean's foam To seek and bring rough pepper home...
Página 96 - And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 218 - Of all-beholding Man, earth's thoughtful Lord ; Then, in full many a region, once like this The assured domain of calm simplicity And pensive quiet, an unnatural light, Prepared for never-resting Labour's eyes, Breaks from a many-windowed Fabric huge ; And at the appointed hour a Bell is heard — Of harsher import than the...
Página 212 - Amid the glad creation, musing praise, And looking lively gratitude. At last, The clouds consign their treasures to the fields ; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander through the forest walks, Beneath the umbrageous multitude of leaves.