Essays and Nature Studies: With LecturesElliot Stock, 1899 - 220 páginas |
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... present enough of observation of Nature and her ways , coupled with enough of good English and happily conveyed directions for the profitable employment of leisure time , to warrant their preservation . The literary and critical essays ...
... present enough of observation of Nature and her ways , coupled with enough of good English and happily conveyed directions for the profitable employment of leisure time , to warrant their preservation . The literary and critical essays ...
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... present author has given it a thirteenth , which is to be universally , and to the end of time , accepted . " In 1887 Mr. Miller founded in Richmond a literary society of which he held the presidency until his retirement from his ...
... present author has given it a thirteenth , which is to be universally , and to the end of time , accepted . " In 1887 Mr. Miller founded in Richmond a literary society of which he held the presidency until his retirement from his ...
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... present , at times , a brilliant display as one walks up to the front door . Beside the pathway some perennial peas have yearly displayed their pretty flowers ; and there are a few such modest plants as creeping jenny . Up the front of ...
... present , at times , a brilliant display as one walks up to the front door . Beside the pathway some perennial peas have yearly displayed their pretty flowers ; and there are a few such modest plants as creeping jenny . Up the front of ...
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... present pleasures . At quiet times , fish leap out of the water ; increasing in numbers with the increasing purity of the river ; boats row or sail quietly past and the to - and - fro movement of tides , that are ever vary- ing in ...
... present pleasures . At quiet times , fish leap out of the water ; increasing in numbers with the increasing purity of the river ; boats row or sail quietly past and the to - and - fro movement of tides , that are ever vary- ing in ...
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... present flowers very early in spring , or even in winter ; Kerria japonica , which bloom later ; perennial stocks , that make a bright and fragrant show ; groups of large snow- drops , that spring up from the bulbs every spring , in ...
... present flowers very early in spring , or even in winter ; Kerria japonica , which bloom later ; perennial stocks , that make a bright and fragrant show ; groups of large snow- drops , that spring up from the bulbs every spring , in ...
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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.