Essays and Nature Studies: With LecturesElliot Stock, 1899 - 220 páginas |
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... songs of birds ; beside many a pool that is the haunt of coot or hern ; over purling brooks that display , all along them , willow - weed and mallow ; and as you look up , you may see the tower of some secluded village church towards ...
... songs of birds ; beside many a pool that is the haunt of coot or hern ; over purling brooks that display , all along them , willow - weed and mallow ; and as you look up , you may see the tower of some secluded village church towards ...
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... songs ; the fields and groves and orchards were quite silent compared with what she had been used to in England ; the only noticeable sound everywhere was , she added , the shrill crescendo of the locust . An enthusiastic American , in ...
... songs ; the fields and groves and orchards were quite silent compared with what she had been used to in England ; the only noticeable sound everywhere was , she added , the shrill crescendo of the locust . An enthusiastic American , in ...
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... song . The second night I spent there I was awakened in the " wee short hours ayont the twal , " by what I thought at first were angels singing round my bed ; but on looking out into the clear moonlight I saw that these awakeners were a ...
... song . The second night I spent there I was awakened in the " wee short hours ayont the twal , " by what I thought at first were angels singing round my bed ; but on looking out into the clear moonlight I saw that these awakeners were a ...
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... song used to meet one everywhere . At that house up the clough , or out of doors in the corner of this field , met the people in former days to practise music and singing , many of them walking miles to the place of assembly ; or from ...
... song used to meet one everywhere . At that house up the clough , or out of doors in the corner of this field , met the people in former days to practise music and singing , many of them walking miles to the place of assembly ; or from ...
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... song of his that began thus : — " " " I gaed a waefu ' gate yestreen , a gate I fear I'll dearly rue . This gate surely meant , I thought , a path ; so I went back , found my path , and got to my destination quite successfully . And ...
... song of his that began thus : — " " " I gaed a waefu ' gate yestreen , a gate I fear I'll dearly rue . This gate surely meant , I thought , a path ; so I went back , found my path , and got to my destination quite successfully . And ...
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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.