The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life, Or, Selections from Fields Old and NewG.P. Putnam, 1855 - 428 pages |
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... green woods , and a fine , extensive water view over one of their great rivers , are especially referred to . Lieu - schew , another ancient writer of theirs , dwells at length on the sub- ject of pleasure - grounds , for which he gives ...
... green woods , and a fine , extensive water view over one of their great rivers , are especially referred to . Lieu - schew , another ancient writer of theirs , dwells at length on the sub- ject of pleasure - grounds , for which he gives ...
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... green things upon earth , bless ye the Lord ; praise him , and magnify him forever . " The most ancient writings of the world thus afford evi- dence that in those remote ages the perception of natural beauty was not wanting in the human ...
... green things upon earth , bless ye the Lord ; praise him , and magnify him forever . " The most ancient writings of the world thus afford evi- dence that in those remote ages the perception of natural beauty was not wanting in the human ...
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... green fields of England ; to the sweetness and freshness of the opening daisy ; of the growing grass ; of the unfolding leaf , with its " glad , light green ! " He was followed by others with the same happy instincts , and a love ́ of ...
... green fields of England ; to the sweetness and freshness of the opening daisy ; of the growing grass ; of the unfolding leaf , with its " glad , light green ! " He was followed by others with the same happy instincts , and a love ́ of ...
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... gras , So small , so thicke , so shorte , so fresh of hew , That most like unto green wool wot I it was : The hegge also that yede in compas , And closed in all the greene herbere , With sicamour THE 37 FLOWER LEAF . AND THE.
... gras , So small , so thicke , so shorte , so fresh of hew , That most like unto green wool wot I it was : The hegge also that yede in compas , And closed in all the greene herbere , With sicamour THE 37 FLOWER LEAF . AND THE.
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... green ware mantles on , Embrouded well so as the surcotes were , And everich had a chapelet on her hed , Which did right well upon the shining here , Made of goodly floures white and red ; The knightes eke that they in honde led , In ...
... green ware mantles on , Embrouded well so as the surcotes were , And everich had a chapelet on her hed , Which did right well upon the shining here , Made of goodly floures white and red ; The knightes eke that they in honde led , In ...
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Æneid ALFRED TENNYSON amid autumn beams beauty BEN JONSON beneath birds bloom blossoms blue boughs bowers breast breath bright brow buds charms cheerful cloud cuckoo dance dark delight dost doth earth fair Fairlop field flocks flowers forest fresh gale garden GILES FLETCHER grass green Grongar Hill grove happy hast hath heart heaven hill hour hues JOHN CLARE lark leaf leaves light live look meadows mede merry MINNESINGERS morning mountain murmuring Nature nest never night nightingale nymph o'er plain pleasure poet purple rill ROBERT HERRICK rose round SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE shade showers silent sing sleep smile soft song soul spide stream summer sweet tell thee thine things Thou art thought thrushes Translation tree unto vale valleys vernal violet voice wandering wave wild WILLIAM GILPIN wind wings winter woods youth
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Page 386 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud...
Page 85 - What thou art we know not: what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not drops so bright to see, as from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 76 - Away ! away ! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry fays ; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Page 86 - We look before and after And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 39 - Where some, like magistrates correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in. their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor...
Page 154 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 85 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Page 190 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath. And stars to set — but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death ! THE LOST PLEIAD.
Page 76 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Page 77 - Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain — To thy high requiem become a sod.