The Book of the Seasons: Or, The Calendar of NatureCarey & Lea, 1831 - 404 страница |
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... ground ; the one to track game, the other vermin ; and thousands of polecats, weasels, stoats, rats, otters, badgers, and similar little nightly depredators, are traced to their hiding-places in old buildings, banks, and hollow trees ...
... ground ; the one to track game, the other vermin ; and thousands of polecats, weasels, stoats, rats, otters, badgers, and similar little nightly depredators, are traced to their hiding-places in old buildings, banks, and hollow trees ...
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... ground ; and in the air , a bitter , scythe - edged , perforating wind from the north ; or what is worse , the north - east , sweeps the descending snow along , whirling it from the open fields , and driving it against whatever opposes ...
... ground ; and in the air , a bitter , scythe - edged , perforating wind from the north ; or what is worse , the north - east , sweeps the descending snow along , whirling it from the open fields , and driving it against whatever opposes ...
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... ground ; the one to track game , the other ver- min ; and thousands of polecats , weasels , stoats , rats , otters , badgers , and similar little nightly depredators , are traced to their hiding - places in old buildings , banks , and ...
... ground ; the one to track game , the other ver- min ; and thousands of polecats , weasels , stoats , rats , otters , badgers , and similar little nightly depredators , are traced to their hiding - places in old buildings , banks , and ...
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... as sudden a re - freezing , covers the whole ground with a sheet of the most glassy ice . Such a frost occurred in 1811 , when great numbers of birds were caught , and amongst them several bustards , their wings being glazed to JANUARY .
... as sudden a re - freezing , covers the whole ground with a sheet of the most glassy ice . Such a frost occurred in 1811 , when great numbers of birds were caught , and amongst them several bustards , their wings being glazed to JANUARY .
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... ground . But of all the phenomena of win- ter , none equals in beauty THE HOAR FROST . A dense haze most com- monly sets in over night , which has vanished the next morning , and left a clear atmosphere , and a lofty arch of sky of the ...
... ground . But of all the phenomena of win- ter , none equals in beauty THE HOAR FROST . A dense haze most com- monly sets in over night , which has vanished the next morning , and left a clear atmosphere , and a lofty arch of sky of the ...
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aliis Alpine amongst April arvensis autumn banks beauty bees Beetle birds blue bogs boughs Broad-leaved buds CALENDAR OF BRITISH Chalky Class and Linnæan Class and Order Cnicus có có có colchicum autumnale Common corn Corn-fields cum mult delightful Diaphora mendica ditches ditto Duration earth eggs English Names Fens fieldfare fields flowers forest fresh frost garden grass green harvest Haunts heart hedges Hornbeam Hypena rostralis insect larvæ leaves Linnæan Names Locality March Marsh MARY HOWITT Meadows and pastures month Moth mountains mult nests Nomina numbers plants pleasant poet Ponds Purple rare rivers rocks rural Sandy places Saxifrage Scotland Sea-shore season SELECT CALENDAR snow sowing species spirit spring Star of Bethlehem Stone Curlew streams summer sunshine sweet thou trees umbels vulgaris Waste ground Watery places wild Willow winds winter Woods and heaths Woods and hedges yellow Yellow Wagtail young
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Страница 163 - Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage and hounds...
Страница 55 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.
Страница 27 - He giveth snow like wool : He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth His ice like morsels : Who can stand before His cold? He sendeth out His word, and melteth them : He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Страница 21 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Страница 55 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Страница 111 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us : Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered...
Страница 245 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Страница 287 - Be thou on the earth;" likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. He sealeth up the hand of every man ; that all men may know his work.
Страница 22 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.