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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... ground , preparing their new shoots to burst forth , when the earth is softened in spring . Shurbs and trees which are exposed to the open air , have all their soft and tender parts closely wrapt up in buds , which by their firmness ...
... ground , preparing their new shoots to burst forth , when the earth is softened in spring . Shurbs and trees which are exposed to the open air , have all their soft and tender parts closely wrapt up in buds , which by their firmness ...
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... ground to draw manure to his fields . He lops and cuts timber , and mends thorn - hedges . When the roads become smooth from the frozen snow , he takes his carts , and carries hay and corn to market , or draws turf and coals for himself ...
... ground to draw manure to his fields . He lops and cuts timber , and mends thorn - hedges . When the roads become smooth from the frozen snow , he takes his carts , and carries hay and corn to market , or draws turf and coals for himself ...
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... ground is too bar- ren to yield corn , or even pasture for cattle , and in winter , when it is entirely covered with snow , the inhabitant would perish on the spot where the cold weather surprizes him , if the Almighty , whose ...
... ground is too bar- ren to yield corn , or even pasture for cattle , and in winter , when it is entirely covered with snow , the inhabitant would perish on the spot where the cold weather surprizes him , if the Almighty , whose ...
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... ground in February , but few 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 ...
... ground in February , but few 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 ...
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... ground is incapable by drought or frost of yielding any more moisture , or when the vessels of the plant are not able to draw it up , the plant perishes . But in trees , though the begin- ning and end of the first process are exactly ...
... ground is incapable by drought or frost of yielding any more moisture , or when the vessels of the plant are not able to draw it up , the plant perishes . But in trees , though the begin- ning and end of the first process are exactly ...
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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...