The Woods and by-ways of New EnglandJ.R. Osgood and Company, 1872 - 442 páginas |
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... shades were ever present dangers and bewilderment for the traveller . In these solitudes the axe of the woodman had never been heard , and the forest for thousands of years had been subject only to the spontaneous action of natural ...
... shades were ever present dangers and bewilderment for the traveller . In these solitudes the axe of the woodman had never been heard , and the forest for thousands of years had been subject only to the spontaneous action of natural ...
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... cover a great part of the surface , satu- rated with moisture . The trees are also covered with mosses , generated by the shade and dampness ; and woody vines , like the climbing fern , the poison ivy THE PRIMITIVE FOREST . 5.
... cover a great part of the surface , satu- rated with moisture . The trees are also covered with mosses , generated by the shade and dampness ; and woody vines , like the climbing fern , the poison ivy THE PRIMITIVE FOREST . 5.
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... shade of the most poetical of all trees . The Willow , though tenacious of life , will not prosper in dry places . Its presence is a sure indication of water , either on the surface of the ground or a little beneath it . The grass is ...
... shade of the most poetical of all trees . The Willow , though tenacious of life , will not prosper in dry places . Its presence is a sure indication of water , either on the surface of the ground or a little beneath it . The grass is ...
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... shade . The same comely rows are seen skirting the pools and watercourses of our pastoral hills and arable meadows . They are planted also by the sides of streams and canals , where they serve , by their long and nu- merous roots , to ...
... shade . The same comely rows are seen skirting the pools and watercourses of our pastoral hills and arable meadows . They are planted also by the sides of streams and canals , where they serve , by their long and nu- merous roots , to ...
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... shade of this tree and hung their harps upon its branches . It is distinguished by the graceful beauty of its outlines , its light green delicate foliage , its sorrowing attitude , and its flowing drapery . Hence the Weeping Willow ...
... shade of this tree and hung their harps upon its branches . It is distinguished by the graceful beauty of its outlines , its light green delicate foliage , its sorrowing attitude , and its flowing drapery . Hence the Weeping Willow ...
Términos y frases comunes
admired afford agreeable American American Elm appearance apple-tree assemblages attractions autumn Barberry beauty berries birds Black Spruce borders branches cause character charming chiefly Clethra clusters color common covered crimson dark deciduous delightful dense displays distinguished elegant England farm fields flowers foliage forest forms fruit garden grandeur green ground grove growth habit height Hence hickory hills Honey Locust hues inhabitants insects land landscape leaf leaves mountain native nature never Norway spruce objects observed odors ornamental pasture picturesque pine Pitch Pine plain plants pleasure poetical poplar purple quadrupeds racemes red maple remarkable resemblance rude rustic scarlet scenery scenes season seen seldom sentiment shade shrubbery shrubs sight slender soil solitary species spray spruce sublimity sumach summer surface swamps tillage tints tion trees trunk Tupelo variety vegetation verdure viburnum village wayside white birches White Spruce whortleberry wild Willow winds winter wood yellow
Pasajes populares
Página 405 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Página 115 - Boussingault mentions a fact that clearly illustrates the condition to which we may be exposed in thousands of locations on this continent. In the Island of Ascension there was a beautiful spring, situated at the foot of a mountain which was covered with wood. By degrees the spring became less copious, and at length failed. While its waters were annually diminishing in bulk, the mountain had been gradually cleared of its forest. The disappearance of the spring was attributed to the clearing. The...
Página 140 - I KNEW, by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here...
Página 405 - I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have.
Página 404 - God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions ; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.
Página 403 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Página 223 - Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar...
Página 53 - Some trees ascend vertically," says St. Pierre, "and having arrived at a certain height, in an air perfectly unobstructed, fork off in various tiers, and send out their branches horizontally, like an apple-tree ; or incline them towards the earth, like a fir ; or hollow them in the form of a cup, like the sassafras ; or round them into the shape of a mushroom, like the pine ; or straighten them into a pyramid, like the poplar; or roll them as wool upon the distaff, like the cypress; or suffer them...
Página 234 - The buttonwood (says Michaux) astonishes the eye by the size of its trunk and the amplitude of its head ; but the white elm has a more majestic appearance, which is owing to its great elevation, to the disposition of its principal limbs, and to the extreme elegance of its summit.