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Page 18
... looks fresh and green , and new ferns are appearing to take the place of the brown and withered stalks that lived the year before . Now and then a little primrose peeps out with its pretty yellow flower , as if it were uncertain whether ...
... looks fresh and green , and new ferns are appearing to take the place of the brown and withered stalks that lived the year before . Now and then a little primrose peeps out with its pretty yellow flower , as if it were uncertain whether ...
Page 20
... look up knowingly from his tree ; the squirrel will perhaps drop a broken nut on your head ; the little lizard will peep out from a hole in some old trunk ; the trees will nod , and the flowers will stare ; and the myriads of insects ...
... look up knowingly from his tree ; the squirrel will perhaps drop a broken nut on your head ; the little lizard will peep out from a hole in some old trunk ; the trees will nod , and the flowers will stare ; and the myriads of insects ...
Page 22
... looks like a giant lying down to sleep , to waken up with renewed life and vigour and strength in the spring . Even when stern winter comes with white and icy reign , the forest assumes new features of beauty and interest . A solemn but ...
... looks like a giant lying down to sleep , to waken up with renewed life and vigour and strength in the spring . Even when stern winter comes with white and icy reign , the forest assumes new features of beauty and interest . A solemn but ...
Page 27
... look about for the safety and preservation of every member of the same body , even so the king , being the head of the body of the commonweal , doth not only continually carry a watchful eye for the preservation of peace and quietness ...
... look about for the safety and preservation of every member of the same body , even so the king , being the head of the body of the commonweal , doth not only continually carry a watchful eye for the preservation of peace and quietness ...
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... choose solitary groves containing no trees but oaks ; nor do they perform any ceremonies without the branches or leaves of this tree , Indeed , whatsoever they find growing to or upon an oak they take to be sent from heaven , and look.
... choose solitary groves containing no trees but oaks ; nor do they perform any ceremonies without the branches or leaves of this tree , Indeed , whatsoever they find growing to or upon an oak they take to be sent from heaven , and look.
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Page 128 - ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 128 - Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Page 292 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say...
Page 87 - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns ; And there he blasts the tree, and takes the cattle, And makes milch-kine yield blood, and shakes a chain In a most hideous and dreadful manner...
Page 64 - With boughs that quaked at every breath Grey birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.
Page 293 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Page 127 - My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing the fire kindled : and at the last I...
Page 71 - In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind...
Page 277 - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
Page 99 - The gray trunks, and, as gamesome infants' eyes, With gentle meanings, and most innocent wiles, Fold their beams round the hearts of those that love, These twine their tendrils with the wedded boughs Uniting their close union ; the woven leaves Make net-work of the dark blue light of day, And the night's noontide clearness, mutable As shapes in the weird clouds.