A Spring-day: Or, Contemplations on Several Occurrences which Naturally Strike the Eye in that Delightful Seasonauthor, 1806 - 338 pages |
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Page 119
... trees and shrubs of which begin to be at- tired in native green , budding forth with a pleasant scent , while almost every spray is made vocal with musicians of gay plumage , and the cuckoo just arrived , repeats her name from bough to ...
... trees and shrubs of which begin to be at- tired in native green , budding forth with a pleasant scent , while almost every spray is made vocal with musicians of gay plumage , and the cuckoo just arrived , repeats her name from bough to ...
Page 120
... trees and shrubs of various kinds , divers growths , and for different uses . Here I have a picture of the world , and may see with the blind man in the gospel , when partly enlight- ened , men as trees , Mark viii . 24. though all of ...
... trees and shrubs of various kinds , divers growths , and for different uses . Here I have a picture of the world , and may see with the blind man in the gospel , when partly enlight- ened , men as trees , Mark viii . 24. though all of ...
Page 121
... trees growing , as it were , out of one root , like so many brothers linking their branches toge- ther , supporting one another as they grow ; so that hardly any wind , though blowing ever so tempestuously , shall be able to over- turn ...
... trees growing , as it were , out of one root , like so many brothers linking their branches toge- ther , supporting one another as they grow ; so that hardly any wind , though blowing ever so tempestuously , shall be able to over- turn ...
Page 123
... tree , under the shade of which grow a few young ashes , which have unhappily been planted there by the wind ; for , owing to his droppings , they make but little progress , nay , rather seem to be on the decline : So I may call him an ...
... tree , under the shade of which grow a few young ashes , which have unhappily been planted there by the wind ; for , owing to his droppings , they make but little progress , nay , rather seem to be on the decline : So I may call him an ...
Page 124
... tree with safety ; though justly , on the ac- count of our first parents having not only approached to , but eaten of the forbidden tree , every tree in the world might have been made a Bohun - upas , or poison tree , that no man could ...
... tree with safety ; though justly , on the ac- count of our first parents having not only approached to , but eaten of the forbidden tree , every tree in the world might have been made a Bohun - upas , or poison tree , that no man could ...
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