Rural Pickings, Or, Attractive Points in Country Life and SceneryW. Tegg & Company, 1846 - 222 páginas |
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... COTTAGES AND COTTAGERS . Cottage of Mother Hollins . - Mother Hollins's cat . - The Wanderer . -Cottages of the poor and of the rich . - Our cares increase the value of our comforts . - Cottage children . - A cottager's love of natural ...
... COTTAGES AND COTTAGERS . Cottage of Mother Hollins . - Mother Hollins's cat . - The Wanderer . -Cottages of the poor and of the rich . - Our cares increase the value of our comforts . - Cottage children . - A cottager's love of natural ...
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... Cottage children . - Gathering nuts . - Fall of the leaf . The wood . The giant trees . - Productiveness of the oak . - The adder . The varied tones of trees in the wind . - The storm CHAPTER XXI . COUNTRY SPORTS AND EMPLOYMENTS . By ...
... Cottage children . - Gathering nuts . - Fall of the leaf . The wood . The giant trees . - Productiveness of the oak . - The adder . The varied tones of trees in the wind . - The storm CHAPTER XXI . COUNTRY SPORTS AND EMPLOYMENTS . By ...
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... hedge , when she dreamed not that any one was near . See you the cottage on the rising slope at the corner of the coppice , where the thin , blue smoke is losing itself r ama 870 Def THE SPRING among the topmost branches 8 RURAL PICKINGS .
... hedge , when she dreamed not that any one was near . See you the cottage on the rising slope at the corner of the coppice , where the thin , blue smoke is losing itself r ama 870 Def THE SPRING among the topmost branches 8 RURAL PICKINGS .
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... cottage , and the bee - hives in the garden look as if a blast would blow them down . But the country girl ! the country girl ! The country girl , in coarse clothing , filling her pitcher , there , at the brook , suits the scene better ...
... cottage , and the bee - hives in the garden look as if a blast would blow them down . But the country girl ! the country girl ! The country girl , in coarse clothing , filling her pitcher , there , at the brook , suits the scene better ...
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... cottage is left to her care . Her parents feel little anxiety about their children while away , for they know that Sarah will see to everything , and prevent accidents from falls or fire . She began to practise so early , that she is ...
... cottage is left to her care . Her parents feel little anxiety about their children while away , for they know that Sarah will see to everything , and prevent accidents from falls or fire . She began to practise so early , that she is ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abroad Antiparos archery Badby bank beauty beneath birds Black Jack blackberries blue boughs bramble breathes breeze bright brook brow bull-baiting called church clouds coppice corncrake cottage cowslip dark delight dogs earth farm farm-houses farmer Fawley Fawley Court fields flowers fold-yard foliage fresh garden gate gathered gaze George Hodges gipsies glory glowing goodly grass green grey hand happy head heard heart heaven hedge hills hollow horses hour kind labour Lake Crystal lane light look Lord meadow mingled Mont Blanc Mount Mucklestone mountain natural never night o'er peace perseverance PETER PARLEY'S pleasant pleasure plough ploughmen poor racter rook round rural scenes scenery seen sere skies smock-frock spirit stand stone stood summer sunny sweet thee things Thomas Cole thou thought tion trees village wandering water-cressers wild William Howitt wind wings Wolverley wood young
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Página 104 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my' God ! My rising soul surveys, Transported with the v'iew, I 'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Página 25 - To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green ; And thou wert still a hope, a love ; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet ; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Página 39 - And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
Página 155 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Página 209 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Página 155 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven : As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm.
Página 200 - Twas thus, by the cave of the mountain afar, While his harp rung symphonious, a hermit began ; No more with himself or with nature at war, He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
Página 185 - But as when the sun approaches towards the gates of the morning, he first opens a little eye of heaven, and sends away the spirits of darkness, and gives light to a cock, and calls up the lark to matins, and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills...
Página 169 - Thou art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from thee. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.
Página 187 - Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near i — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.