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... wild way , and hope against hope that broom and gorse , blue bugloss , brambles , and wild poppies , will blend into a rainbow undergrowth . While pink thorns , copper beech , chestnuts , weeping birches , and Malus floribunda will make ...
... wild way , and hope against hope that broom and gorse , blue bugloss , brambles , and wild poppies , will blend into a rainbow undergrowth . While pink thorns , copper beech , chestnuts , weeping birches , and Malus floribunda will make ...
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... wild roses . He had almost forgotten how to smile , but then he had little to smile at , in spite of his content . I dare say he wonders ( if he ever takes the trouble to wonder at all ) whether there will be roads to keep tidy in ...
... wild roses . He had almost forgotten how to smile , but then he had little to smile at , in spite of his content . I dare say he wonders ( if he ever takes the trouble to wonder at all ) whether there will be roads to keep tidy in ...
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... wild roses . A young yaffle called from the wood , evidently in despair at finding himself alone now the sun had disappeared , and a slight chill in the air bade us turn once more up the steep lane into the garden . " We will wander ...
... wild roses . A young yaffle called from the wood , evidently in despair at finding himself alone now the sun had disappeared , and a slight chill in the air bade us turn once more up the steep lane into the garden . " We will wander ...
Page 102
... wild berries and honey to appease their hunger ? Henry of Blois , brother of King Stephen and Abbot of Glastonbury , succeeded William Gifford at Waverley . " Not a fragment , " we read , " of the original Norman church of William ...
... wild berries and honey to appease their hunger ? Henry of Blois , brother of King Stephen and Abbot of Glastonbury , succeeded William Gifford at Waverley . " Not a fragment , " we read , " of the original Norman church of William ...
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... wild strawberry blooms there is such a noise in the still bare hedge that folks are at once attracted to the spot to find a long - tailed tit's nest just completed . A beautiful soft ball of moss it is , covered with lichen , woven ...
... wild strawberry blooms there is such a noise in the still bare hedge that folks are at once attracted to the spot to find a long - tailed tit's nest just completed . A beautiful soft ball of moss it is , covered with lichen , woven ...
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Page 229 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 182 - THE sun is set ; the swallows are asleep ; The bats are flitting fast in the grey air ; The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep, And evening's breath, wandering here and there Over the quivering surface of the stream, Wakes not one ripple from its summer dream.
Page 162 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 78 - The residence of people of fortune and refinement in the country has diffused a degree of taste and elegance in rural economy, that descends to the lowest class. The very labourer, with his thatched cottage and narrow slip of ground, attends to their embellishment.
Page 152 - Whilst flowers are gay, Whilst eyes that change ere night Make glad the day, Whilst yet the calm hours creep, Dream thou — and from thy sleep Then wake to weep.
Page 118 - Obedient to the light That shone within his soul, he went, pursuing The windings of the dell. - The rivulet Wanton and wild, through many a green ravine Beneath the forest flowed. Sometimes it fell Among the moss with hollow harmony Dark and profound. Now on the polished stones It danced; like childhood laughing as it went: Then, through the plain in tranquil wanderings crept, 500 Reflecting every herb and drooping bud That overhung its quietness.
Page 245 - DE TABLEY (LORD). POEMS, DRAMATIC AND LYRICAL. By JOHN LEICESTER WARREN (Lord De Tabley). Illustrations and Cover Design by CS RICKETTS. Second Edition. Crown 8vo.
Page 248 - JOHNSON (LIONEL). THE ART OF THOMAS HARDY : Six Essays. With Etched Portrait by WM. STRANG, and Bibliography by JOHN LANE. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s. 6d. net. Also 150 copies, large paper, with proofs of the portrait. £i, is. net. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co.
Page 84 - ... throw in a semblance of green summer to cheer the fireside, all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind. If ever Love, as poets sing, delights to visit a cottage, it must be the cottage of an English peasant.