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... bright autumnal tints which the leaves rapidly assume are alluded to by Cowper in the lines , - " The sycamore , capricious in attire ; Now green , now tawny ; and ere autumn yet Has changed the woods , in scarlet honours bright . ” The ...
... bright autumnal tints which the leaves rapidly assume are alluded to by Cowper in the lines , - " The sycamore , capricious in attire ; Now green , now tawny ; and ere autumn yet Has changed the woods , in scarlet honours bright . ” The ...
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... bright tints , which give a pleasing variety to the usual sombre brown . This shrub is confined chiefly to chalky soils , and is by no means uncommon in the south of England . 1 Cornus sanguinea . The WILLOWS are chiefly found in swampy ...
... bright tints , which give a pleasing variety to the usual sombre brown . This shrub is confined chiefly to chalky soils , and is by no means uncommon in the south of England . 1 Cornus sanguinea . The WILLOWS are chiefly found in swampy ...
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... bright red berries in the autumn . The compound leaves are not unlike those of the ash , but it is more nearly related to the pear and apple - tree , although this would hardly be suspected by any except the bota- nist . Ancient poets ...
... bright red berries in the autumn . The compound leaves are not unlike those of the ash , but it is more nearly related to the pear and apple - tree , although this would hardly be suspected by any except the bota- nist . Ancient poets ...
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... bright yellow flowers are succeeded by clusters of shining bright red fruit . There is in many localities . a very strong prejudice against the berberry as a hedge plant , on account of the current opinion that it is in some way the ...
... bright yellow flowers are succeeded by clusters of shining bright red fruit . There is in many localities . a very strong prejudice against the berberry as a hedge plant , on account of the current opinion that it is in some way the ...
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... bright red berries are nodding and bending beneath their own weight . The young twigs and large elliptical leaves on the underside are Viburnum Opulus . 2 Viburnum Lantana . covered with a dense coating of stellate hairs , which 52 THE ...
... bright red berries are nodding and bending beneath their own weight . The young twigs and large elliptical leaves on the underside are Viburnum Opulus . 2 Viburnum Lantana . covered with a dense coating of stellate hairs , which 52 THE ...
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Página 148 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Página 147 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Página 93 - And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the head-stone.
Página 59 - For him the wind, ay, and the yellow leaves, Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teachings. He shall so hear the solemn hymn that Death Has lifted up for all, that he shall go To his long resting-place without a tear.
Página 259 - About nine an appearance very unusual began to demand our attention, a shower of cobwebs falling from very elevated regions, and continuing, without any interruption, till the close of the day.
Página 56 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Página 35 - Whilom a twig of small regard to see, Though now so wide its waving branches flow, And work the simple vassals mickle woe ; For not a wind might curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shudder'd and their pulse beat low, And as they look'd they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view.
Página 8 - As the sward and moss disappear with the brushwood from the sides of the mountains, the waters falling in rain are no longer impeded in their course ; and instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive...
Página 253 - ... the mean number of viscid globules which occur on one-tenth of an inch of the elastic spiral line, at the ordinary degree of tension, the product will be 140, the mean number of globules deposited on seven-tenths of an inch of the elastic spiral line; this product multiplied by...