The Book of the Seasons: Or, The Calendar of NatureCarey & Lea, 1831 - 404 páginas |
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... month of abundant snows and all the intensity of frost . Yet winter , even in its severest forms , brings so , many scenes and cir- cumstances with it to interest the heart of the lover of Nature and of his fellow - creatures , that it ...
... month of abundant snows and all the intensity of frost . Yet winter , even in its severest forms , brings so , many scenes and cir- cumstances with it to interest the heart of the lover of Nature and of his fellow - creatures , that it ...
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... month Aefler - yula , or After - Christmas . The Greeks called it Anthesterion , or , the Flowery , from the quantity of flowers used at the feast of Bacchus ; but our present name is derived from the Latin , Janus , door - keeper of ...
... month Aefler - yula , or After - Christmas . The Greeks called it Anthesterion , or , the Flowery , from the quantity of flowers used at the feast of Bacchus ; but our present name is derived from the Latin , Janus , door - keeper of ...
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... flowers , in fact , all the richness and glory of the coming year , are preserved , cannot be sufficiently ad- mired . Towards the end of the month , the throstle C is seen under sunny hedges and southern walls in pursuit JANUARY . 17.
... flowers , in fact , all the richness and glory of the coming year , are preserved , cannot be sufficiently ad- mired . Towards the end of the month , the throstle C is seen under sunny hedges and southern walls in pursuit JANUARY . 17.
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... month , is to feed and comfort his depen- dent animals : his cattle in their stalls and straw - yards ; his sheep in warm and sheltered enclosures , giving them hay , straw , turnips , etc .: looking well after his flocks that they be ...
... month , is to feed and comfort his depen- dent animals : his cattle in their stalls and straw - yards ; his sheep in warm and sheltered enclosures , giving them hay , straw , turnips , etc .: looking well after his flocks that they be ...
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... months , in a more clear and complete manner than has hitherto been done . No migratory birds arrive this month , if we except grosbeaks and silktails , which in this , as in the last , occasionally appear , in very severe weather , as ...
... months , in a more clear and complete manner than has hitherto been done . No migratory birds arrive this month , if we except grosbeaks and silktails , which in this , as in the last , occasionally appear , in very severe weather , as ...
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aliis Alpine amongst April arvensis autumn banks beauty bees Beetle birds blue bogs boughs Broad-leaved buds CALENDAR OF BRITISH Chalky Class and Linnæan Class and Order Cnicus có có có colchicum autumnale Common corn Corn-fields cum mult delightful Diaphora mendica ditches ditto Duration earth eggs English Names Fens fieldfare fields flowers forest fresh frost garden grass green harvest Haunts heart hedges Hornbeam Hypena rostralis insect larvæ leaves Linnæan Names Locality March Marsh MARY HOWITT Meadows and pastures month Moth mountains mult nests Nomina numbers plants pleasant poet Ponds Purple rare rivers rocks rural Sandy places Saxifrage Scotland Sea-shore season SELECT CALENDAR snow sowing species spirit spring Star of Bethlehem Stone Curlew streams summer sunshine sweet thou trees umbels vulgaris Waste ground Watery places wild Willow winds winter Woods and heaths Woods and hedges yellow Yellow Wagtail young
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Página 163 - Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage and hounds...
Página 55 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.
Página 27 - He giveth snow like wool : He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth His ice like morsels : Who can stand before His cold? He sendeth out His word, and melteth them : He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Página 21 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Página 55 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Página 111 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us : Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered...
Página 245 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 287 - Be thou on the earth;" likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. He sealeth up the hand of every man ; that all men may know his work.
Página 22 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.