Wet days at Edgewood with old farmers, old gardeners, and old pastoralsC. Scribner's sons, 1907 |
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Términos y frases comunes
acres agri agricultural Arthur Young barley beautiful better birds British Cato cattle century charming Cobbett Columella CONRAD HERESBACH CORN cows Crescenzi crops culture delightful England English fancy farm farmer fields flowers garden gentleman Geoponica Geoponics Georgics Gervase Markham give grass Greek green hand Heresbach Hesiod hills Horace Horace Walpole horses hundred husbandry Jethro Tull labor Lady Lancelot Brown land Leasowes lived London look Lord manure master meadows ment morning never Palladius pastoral Philip Miller Piers Plowman plants pleasant Pliny plough poem poet poor practical pretty rain rare reader river Roman rural says Scotch seed sheep Shenstone soil song spires story suspect sweet talk taste tells tender Thomas Whately Tibullus tion treatise trees Tull turnips Varro verse villa vines Virgil walks wet day wonder wood writing wrote Xenophon
Pasajes populares
Página 338 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with Grace Divine preside.
Página 269 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 209 - And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Página 298 - The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; — These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Página 31 - That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Página 295 - Our little habitation was situated at the foot of a sloping hill, sheltered with a beautiful underwood behind, and a prattling river before ; on one side a meadow, on the other a green.
Página 209 - To hear the Lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow, Through the Sweet-Briar or the Vine, Or the twisted Eglantine.
Página 200 - I see those aims, those actions, which have won you with me the esteem of a person sent hither by some good providence from a far country to be the occasion and incitement of great good to this island.
Página 296 - Nothing could exceed the neatness of my little enclosures, the elms and hedgerows appearing with inexpressible beauty. My house consisted of but one story, and was covered with thatch, which gave it an air of great snugness...
Página 339 - WHAT change has made the pastures sweet And reached the daisies at my feet, And cloud that wears a golden hem ? This lovely world, the hills, the sward — They all look fresh, as if our Lord But yesterday had finished them. And...