The Book of the Seasons: Or, The Calendar of NatureCarey & Lea, 1831 - 404 pàgines |
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Pàgina 5
... am writing , accounts from Scotland appear in the newspapers of a most tremendous snow - torm , which , leaving the country southward of Alnwick and Gretna- Green nearly free , has buried all northward of that JANUARY . 5.
... am writing , accounts from Scotland appear in the newspapers of a most tremendous snow - torm , which , leaving the country southward of Alnwick and Gretna- Green nearly free , has buried all northward of that JANUARY . 5.
Pàgina 6
Or, The Calendar of Nature William Howitt. Green nearly free , has buried all northward of that line , in a vast fall of snow , sweeping across the country even to the shores of the Irish Channel . The mails are stopped , the snow ...
Or, The Calendar of Nature William Howitt. Green nearly free , has buried all northward of that line , in a vast fall of snow , sweeping across the country even to the shores of the Irish Channel . The mails are stopped , the snow ...
Pàgina 18
... green wheat . Their coverings of slime prevent the escape of animal heat , and hence they are enabled to ravage when their brethren of the shell are compelled to lie dormant . Earth- worms likewise appear about this time ; but let not ...
... green wheat . Their coverings of slime prevent the escape of animal heat , and hence they are enabled to ravage when their brethren of the shell are compelled to lie dormant . Earth- worms likewise appear about this time ; but let not ...
Pàgina 45
... green things are peeping from the earth , and snow - drops , hepaticas , etc. are ac- tually in bloom . In towns it is a cheering sight , even while all without is frosty and wintry , to see , as we pass , in cottage windows , tufts of ...
... green things are peeping from the earth , and snow - drops , hepaticas , etc. are ac- tually in bloom . In towns it is a cheering sight , even while all without is frosty and wintry , to see , as we pass , in cottage windows , tufts of ...
Pàgina 48
... green fields , of the solitary woodlands . We observe him , especially in the spring and the autumn , a silent and picturesque object , poring under hedges and along the skirts of the forest , or the margin of a stream for traces of The ...
... green fields , of the solitary woodlands . We observe him , especially in the spring and the autumn , a silent and picturesque object , poring under hedges and along the skirts of the forest , or the margin of a stream for traces of The ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
aliis Alpine amongst April arvensis autumn banks beauty bees Beetle birds blue bogs boughs Broad-leaved buds CALENDAR OF BRITISH Chalky Class and Linnæan Class and Order Cnicus có có có colchicum autumnale Common corn Corn-fields cum mult delightful Diaphora mendica ditches ditto Duration earth eggs English Names Fens fieldfare fields flowers forest fresh frost garden grass green harvest Haunts heart hedges Hornbeam Hypena rostralis insect larvæ leaves Linnæan Names Locality March Marsh MARY HOWITT Meadows and pastures month Moth mountains mult nests Nomina numbers plants pleasant poet Ponds Purple rare rivers rocks rural Sandy places Saxifrage Scotland Sea-shore season SELECT CALENDAR snow sowing species spirit spring Star of Bethlehem Stone Curlew streams summer sunshine sweet thou trees umbels vulgaris Waste ground Watery places wild Willow winds winter Woods and heaths Woods and hedges yellow Yellow Wagtail young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 163 - Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage and hounds...
Pàgina 55 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.
Pàgina 27 - He giveth snow like wool : He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth His ice like morsels : Who can stand before His cold? He sendeth out His word, and melteth them : He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Pàgina 21 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Pàgina 55 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Pàgina 111 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us : Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered...
Pàgina 245 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Pàgina 287 - Be thou on the earth;" likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. He sealeth up the hand of every man ; that all men may know his work.
Pàgina 22 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.