The Rural Life of England, المجلد 1Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 386 من الصفحات |
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... tell us of the beauty of southern skies , and the softness of southern climates ; but where is the land which a man would rather choose to call himself a native of - because it VOL . I. B combines more of the requisites for a happy and ...
... tell us of the beauty of southern skies , and the softness of southern climates ; but where is the land which a man would rather choose to call himself a native of - because it VOL . I. B combines more of the requisites for a happy and ...
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... tell you how beautiful , in their eyes , appeared the parks , lawns , fields , and the whole country of England , cultivated like a garden . It is true that our climate is not to be boasted of for its perpetual serenity . It has had no ...
... tell you how beautiful , in their eyes , appeared the parks , lawns , fields , and the whole country of England , cultivated like a garden . It is true that our climate is not to be boasted of for its perpetual serenity . It has had no ...
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... and morals hold Which Milton held . In everything we are sprung Of earth's best blood , have titles manifold . And will any man tell me that the spirit of our climate , has had nothing to do with begetting and 6 ENGLAND AS A PLACE OF.
... and morals hold Which Milton held . In everything we are sprung Of earth's best blood , have titles manifold . And will any man tell me that the spirit of our climate , has had nothing to do with begetting and 6 ENGLAND AS A PLACE OF.
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... telling her daughters , that if they there indulge in English luxuries , they must prepare them themselves , such is the simplicity of her mountain residence and establishment ; and they take their Cook's Oracle , and wonderfully enjoy ...
... telling her daughters , that if they there indulge in English luxuries , they must prepare them themselves , such is the simplicity of her mountain residence and establishment ; and they take their Cook's Oracle , and wonderfully enjoy ...
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... telling us of the pleasure he took in farming . " I might expatiate , " he says , " on the beauty of verdant groves and meadows , on the charm- ing aspects of vineyards and olive - yards , but to say all in one word , there cannot be a ...
... telling us of the pleasure he took in farming . " I might expatiate , " he says , " on the beauty of verdant groves and meadows , on the charm- ing aspects of vineyards and olive - yards , but to say all in one word , there cannot be a ...
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الصفحة 265 - Early had he learned To reverence the volume that displays The mystery, the life which cannot die; But in the mountains did he feel his faith. All things, responsive to the writing, there Breathed immortality, revolving life, And greatness still revolving; infinite: There littleness was not...
الصفحة 376 - Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed : The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood.
الصفحة 70 - Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains; husbandmen also, and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
الصفحة 358 - I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing upon a hill, a gentle hill, Green and of mild declivity, the last As 'twere the cape of a long ridge of such, Save that there was no sea to lave its base, But a most living landscape, and the wave Of woods and cornfields, and the abodes of men Scatter'd at intervals, and wreathing smoke Arising from such rustic roofs...
الصفحة 358 - Another ! even now she loved another ; And on the summit of that hill she stood Looking afar , if yet her lover's steed Kept pace with her expectancy , and flew.
الصفحة 330 - HERE I am at Houghton! and alone! in this spot, where (except two hours last month) I have not been in sixteen years! Think, what a crowd of reflections ! No, Gray, and forty church-yards, could not furnish so many; nay, I know one must feel them with greater indifference than I possess, to have patience to put them into verse. Here I am, probably for the last time of my life, though not for the last time: every clock that strikes tells me I am an hour nearer to yonder church — that church, into...
الصفحة v - All bonds of natural love, and find them all Within the limits of thy rocky shores. 0 native Britain! O my Mother Isle! How shouldst thou prove aught else but dear and holy To me, who from thy lakes and mountain-hills, Thy clouds, thy quiet dales, thy rocks and seas, Have drunk in all my intellectual life...
الصفحة 12 - The ships of war that prowled like guardian giants along the coast ; the headlands of Ireland, stretching out into the channel ; the Welsh mountains, towering into the clouds ; all were objects of intense interest. As we sailed up the Mersey, I reconnoitered the shores with a telescope.
الصفحة 381 - THROUGH thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle ; Thou, the hall of my fathers, art gone to decay ; In thy once smiling garden, the hemlock and thistle Have choked up the rose which late bloom'd in the way.
الصفحة 374 - Had wandered from its dwelling, and her eyes, — They had not their own lustre, but the look Which is not of the earth : she was become The queen of a fantastic realm ; her thoughts Were combinations of disjointed things ; And forms — impalpable and unperccived Of others' sight — familiar were to hers, And this the world calls frenzy...