A Picture of the Seasons;: With Anecdotes and Remarks on Every Month in the Year. Embellished with Cuts..executrix of the late W. Wetton; and sold, 1830 - 176 |
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... flowering , and fruiting , of the various tribes of vegetables ; and the agree ment of these appearances with the laying and hatching of birds , and the production of the young of quadrupeds . This way of reckoning , however , was ...
... flowering , and fruiting , of the various tribes of vegetables ; and the agree ment of these appearances with the laying and hatching of birds , and the production of the young of quadrupeds . This way of reckoning , however , was ...
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... flower , and under the shelter of southern hedge - banks , the red - dead - nettle , and groundsel . The flow- ers of the mezereon and snow drop seem on the point of blowing , and the catkin , or blossom of the hazel , begins to unfold ...
... flower , and under the shelter of southern hedge - banks , the red - dead - nettle , and groundsel . The flow- ers of the mezereon and snow drop seem on the point of blowing , and the catkin , or blossom of the hazel , begins to unfold ...
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... flowers as yet adorn the fields and pastures . Snow - drops are sometimes fully opened from the beginning of the month , and often peep out amidst the snow . The alder - tree discloses its flower - buds ; the catkins of the hazel are ...
... flowers as yet adorn the fields and pastures . Snow - drops are sometimes fully opened from the beginning of the month , and often peep out amidst the snow . The alder - tree discloses its flower - buds ; the catkins of the hazel are ...
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... flowers and fruit are gone , and what was the inner bark is no longer in its usual state , while the roots of the buds form a new inner bark ; and thus the buds with their roots contain all that remains alive of the whole tree . It is ...
... flowers and fruit are gone , and what was the inner bark is no longer in its usual state , while the roots of the buds form a new inner bark ; and thus the buds with their roots contain all that remains alive of the whole tree . It is ...
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... flowers . Another agreeable token of the arrival of the spring is , that the bees begin to venture out of their hives about the middle of this month as their food is the honey - like juice found in the tubes of flowers , their coming ...
... flowers . Another agreeable token of the arrival of the spring is , that the bees begin to venture out of their hives about the middle of this month as their food is the honey - like juice found in the tubes of flowers , their coming ...
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animals annual plant appearance arrive autumn beauty become beech bees begin berries birds birds of prey blossoms bright buds called catkins cattle chaffinch clouds cold corn covered cuckoo earth eggs England fall farmer feed feet females fieldfare fields flowers frog frost frozen fruit gannets gardens goats Goldau grass ground grow heard heat hedges hive honey horse-chestnut inhabitants insects island juice kinds labourers Lapland latter end leaves longest day males meadows mezereon month morning mountain multitudes nature nectarine nest night nightshade northern nourishment numbers o'er perfect perish plants plentiful prey principal quadrupeds quantity queen Queen bee rain river scarcely season seeds sheep shelter shower shrubs snow soon species spring stalk summer swallow swarm sweet thawed THOMSON thrush tivated torpid trees tribe various vegetables warm weather warmth whole wild wind wings winter woods young
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Strona 159 - Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art.
Strona 98 - Welcome, ye shades ! ye bowery thickets, hail ! Ye lofty pines ! ye venerable oaks ! Ye ashes wild, resounding o'er the steep ! Delicious is your shelter to the soul, As to the hunted hart the sallying spring...
Strona 96 - Rural confusion ! On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip The circling surface.
Strona 75 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Strona 13 - Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current. Low the woods Bow their hoar head ; and ere the languid sun, Faint from the west, emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.
Strona 35 - ... the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest; and, though her parental affection deserved a better fate, was whipped down by the twigs, which brought her dead to the...
Strona 17 - Burning for blood, bony, and gaunt, and grim, Assembling wolves in raging troops descend ; 395 And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the north-wind sweeps the glossy snow.
Strona 38 - To shake the sounding marsh; or from the shore The plovers when to scatter o'er the heath, And sing their wild notes to the listening waste. At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him. Then no more Th...
Strona 131 - When Autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warn'd of approaching Winter, gather'd, play The swallow-people ; and toss'd wide around, O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, The feather'd eddy floats : rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire ; In clusters clung, beneath the mouldering bank, And where, unpierced by frost, the cavern sweats.
Strona 34 - Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry : the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task ; but when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the...