The Rural Life of England, Հատոր 2Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 386 էջ |
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... gone by - May - day celebrated with enthusiasm by the Poets - European observance of May derived from the Roman Festival of Flora - Saxon Customs of this period of the Year - Druid Customs - Blowing of Horns at Oxford and other places ...
... gone by - May - day celebrated with enthusiasm by the Poets - European observance of May derived from the Roman Festival of Flora - Saxon Customs of this period of the Year - Druid Customs - Blowing of Horns at Oxford and other places ...
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... Fairy Superstitions -Fairies all vanished from the Country -Gone in Chaucer's Days - Bishop Corbett's Farewell to them Hogg their last Poet - Fairies of Caldon - Low- Made Immortal by Milton and Shakspeare - Belief of them CONTENTS . ix.
... Fairy Superstitions -Fairies all vanished from the Country -Gone in Chaucer's Days - Bishop Corbett's Farewell to them Hogg their last Poet - Fairies of Caldon - Low- Made Immortal by Milton and Shakspeare - Belief of them CONTENTS . ix.
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... snow is hid : " now , they were as the billows of affliction , -scenes of trouble- " all thy billows have gone over me : " and now they were as the refresh- ment of a thirsty soul . The greenness of the BEAUTIFUL IN NATURE . 19.
... snow is hid : " now , they were as the billows of affliction , -scenes of trouble- " all thy billows have gone over me : " and now they were as the refresh- ment of a thirsty soul . The greenness of the BEAUTIFUL IN NATURE . 19.
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... gone by , and it has been seen with lively satisfaction by all parties that it has purged itself of this evil nature , and as it has become peerless in fame , it has become more and more generous , forgiving , and superior to every ...
... gone by , and it has been seen with lively satisfaction by all parties that it has purged itself of this evil nature , and as it has become peerless in fame , it has become more and more generous , forgiving , and superior to every ...
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... gone with rod in hand , following the course of a clear , rapid stream , eagerly intent upon trout , or salmon . And then he is the poet again , every atom of him , meek as a bard of nineteen , or of ninety ; all tender- ness , purity ...
... gone with rod in hand , following the course of a clear , rapid stream , eagerly intent upon trout , or salmon . And then he is the poet again , every atom of him , meek as a bard of nineteen , or of ninety ; all tender- ness , purity ...
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admiration amid amongst amusements ancient bear-baiting beauty bells Ben Jonson Bewick Blackwood's Magazine Boldre boughs bull-baiting Cann cattle charm Christmas church Cornwall cottage crown customs dancing deep deer delight Derbyshire Devon earth England English enjoyment eyes fair feeling festival fields fire flowers forest garden gone green hamlet happy head hear heart heaths heaven Henry VIII herd Hesiod hills holy human king labourers Lancashire land light literature living look Lord May-day May-pole merry mighty mind modern moorland morning mountains nature neighbouring noble Nottingham once passion peace picturesque play pleasure poetical poetry poets poor quintain racter red deer rich Robin Hood round rural rustic scene Scotland seems seen shew singing solitary soul sound spirit Staffordshire stand stone stream sublime summer sweet taste Theocritus things thou tion town trees village walk whole wild wonderful woods young
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Էջ 112 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Էջ 16 - Nature led ; more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.
Էջ 17 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Էջ 23 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Էջ 344 - Ah ! slowly sink Behind the western ridge, thou glorious Sun ! Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb, Ye purple heath-flowers ! richlier burn, ye clouds ! Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves! And kindle, thou blue Ocean ! So my friend Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood, Silent with swimming sense...
Էջ 21 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul...
Էջ 364 - UPON a time, before the faery broods Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods, Before King Oberon's bright diadem, Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy gem, Frighted away the Dryads and the Fauns...
Էջ 160 - Besides, the childhood of the day has kept Against you come, some orient pearls unwept. Come, and receive them while the light Hangs on the dew-locks of the night, And Titan on the eastern hill Betires himself, or else stands still Till you come forth.
Էջ 20 - If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Էջ 160 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street And open fields and we not see't? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May: And sin no more, as we have done, by staying; But, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.