Essays and Nature Studies: With LecturesElliot Stock, 1899 - 220 páginas |
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... century with the possibilities of observation in an ordinary rural parish , and the ever - regretted Richard Jefferies , our English Thoreau , who made amazing catalogues of the plants he found in a humble suburban lane , proved for all ...
... century with the possibilities of observation in an ordinary rural parish , and the ever - regretted Richard Jefferies , our English Thoreau , who made amazing catalogues of the plants he found in a humble suburban lane , proved for all ...
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... century . We English are said to be a private , domestic , homely folk , who dislike publicity , dislike noise , and love to feel the grass under our feet . We have a love of field - paths and green lanes the Americans humorously say we ...
... century . We English are said to be a private , domestic , homely folk , who dislike publicity , dislike noise , and love to feel the grass under our feet . We have a love of field - paths and green lanes the Americans humorously say we ...
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... centuries ago , so now , everyone knows enough to say , with Anacreon , of this gentle bird , that " When Nature wears her summer vest , he comes to weave his simple nest ; And when the chilling winter lowers , again he seeks the genial ...
... centuries ago , so now , everyone knows enough to say , with Anacreon , of this gentle bird , that " When Nature wears her summer vest , he comes to weave his simple nest ; And when the chilling winter lowers , again he seeks the genial ...
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... century work , is noteworthy for its beauty of suggesting the woven crown of thorns on the Saviour's brow ; and a stone bench that used to run as a seat for worshippers around the walls of the south transept might be well cited as ...
... century work , is noteworthy for its beauty of suggesting the woven crown of thorns on the Saviour's brow ; and a stone bench that used to run as a seat for worshippers around the walls of the south transept might be well cited as ...
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... centuries , as it was thought objec- tionable that moneys should be drawn from this country to increase the resources of the enemy , it was usual for the king to seize all the possessions of alien religious houses , as happened in the ...
... centuries , as it was thought objec- tionable that moneys should be drawn from this country to increase the resources of the enemy , it was usual for the king to seize all the possessions of alien religious houses , as happened in the ...
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Página 190 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 86 - These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart...
Página 12 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Página 154 - Tis dreadful! How reverend is the face of this tall pile. Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads. To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immovable. Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold. And shoot a dullness to my trembling heart.
Página 152 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 153 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Página 96 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...
Página 97 - CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Página 142 - Still green with bays each ancient altar stands Above the reach of sacrilegious hands, Secure from flames, from Envy's fiercer rage, Destructive war, and all-involving Age. See from each clime the learn'd their incense bring ! Hear in all tongues consenting paeans ring!
Página 102 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.