Burford Cottage, and Its Robin-red-breastT. Tegg and Son, 1835 - 476 էջ |
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... hand of nature , and it is certainly new under the hand of man ; and this latter point brings us round again to our singing - birds , and our Robin - red - breasts ; and to some other considerations which I am willing , in this ...
... hand of nature , and it is certainly new under the hand of man ; and this latter point brings us round again to our singing - birds , and our Robin - red - breasts ; and to some other considerations which I am willing , in this ...
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... hand Than his who made it ; " But , in remarks like these , there is , as you have now heard , exaggeration , inaccuracy , and , as to the latter , even a share of superstition . It is not in " all nature , ” that all the charms of ...
... hand Than his who made it ; " But , in remarks like these , there is , as you have now heard , exaggeration , inaccuracy , and , as to the latter , even a share of superstition . It is not in " all nature , ” that all the charms of ...
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... hand of man release nature from a thousand thraldoms which obstruct her labours , and transplant into silent , solitary , and sterile spots , treasures which are nature's own , but yet beyond her local reach ? How much that is rugged ...
... hand of man release nature from a thousand thraldoms which obstruct her labours , and transplant into silent , solitary , and sterile spots , treasures which are nature's own , but yet beyond her local reach ? How much that is rugged ...
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... hand of man ; changes in its soils , its temperatures , its seasons , and its plants and animals ; and consequent , one way and the other , upon human culture , commerce , arts , and civilization . Already the wild cangaroo of the ...
... hand of man ; changes in its soils , its temperatures , its seasons , and its plants and animals ; and consequent , one way and the other , upon human culture , commerce , arts , and civilization . Already the wild cangaroo of the ...
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... hands of the gentle inhabitants of Burford Cottage ! There lives , in the midst of the village , and near a clump of towering elm - trees , a Mr. Ephraim Gubbins , a somewhat aged schoolmaster , who with his wife , scarcely younger than ...
... hands of the gentle inhabitants of Burford Cottage ! There lives , in the midst of the village , and near a clump of towering elm - trees , a Mr. Ephraim Gubbins , a somewhat aged schoolmaster , who with his wife , scarcely younger than ...
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Burford cottage, and its robin-red-breast, by the author of Keepr's travels Edward Augustus Kendall Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
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Էջ 326 - Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Էջ 324 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Էջ 24 - 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 330 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Էջ 458 - And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him; and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Էջ 321 - Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
Էջ 296 - Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon Which Providence assigns them. One alone, The redbreast, sacred to the household gods. Wisely regardful of th...
Էջ 466 - God who makes the sun to know His proper hour to rise, And to give light to all below, Doth send him round the skies. When from the chambers of the east His morning race begins, He never tires, nor stops to rest ; But round the world he shines.
Էջ 325 - Up led by thee Into the heaven of heavens I have presumed, An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air, Thy tempering; with like safety guided down Return me to my native element: Lest from this flying steed unreined, (as once Bellerophon, though from a lower clime) Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall Erroneous there to wander and forlorn.
Էջ 447 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.