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... vast age which it reaches , the hardness and durability of its timber , have placed it at the head of all trees . Like the lion among quadrupeds , and the eagle among birds , the oak is the monarch of its kind . Few writers have ...
... vast age which it reaches , the hardness and durability of its timber , have placed it at the head of all trees . Like the lion among quadrupeds , and the eagle among birds , the oak is the monarch of its kind . Few writers have ...
Page 54
... which seems to foretell the vast longevity of the tree ; 66 POPLAR AND WILLOW . 55 for soon ripe and. NANNAU OAK , OR THE SPIRIT'S BLASTED TREE . ASH , LARCH , PINASTER , LIME . 54 ENGLISH FORESTS AND FOREST - TREES .
... which seems to foretell the vast longevity of the tree ; 66 POPLAR AND WILLOW . 55 for soon ripe and. NANNAU OAK , OR THE SPIRIT'S BLASTED TREE . ASH , LARCH , PINASTER , LIME . 54 ENGLISH FORESTS AND FOREST - TREES .
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... vast credit . The walks are of the good old sixteenth - century stuff , and the capital letters E. R. , in the character of the period , over the large window , are in excellent preservation . To the left across the river is the College ...
... vast credit . The walks are of the good old sixteenth - century stuff , and the capital letters E. R. , in the character of the period , over the large window , are in excellent preservation . To the left across the river is the College ...
Page 83
... vast panorama extending as far as the eye can reach . All flat - the faint blue horizontal line , scarcely discernible from the clouds , so dis- tant is it , as straight as the boundary of a calm sea — and yet how infi- nitely varied ...
... vast panorama extending as far as the eye can reach . All flat - the faint blue horizontal line , scarcely discernible from the clouds , so dis- tant is it , as straight as the boundary of a calm sea — and yet how infi- nitely varied ...
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... vast credit . The walks are of the good old sixteenth - century stuff , and the capital letters E. R. , in the character of the period , over the large window , are in excellent preservation . The To the left across the river is the ...
... vast credit . The walks are of the good old sixteenth - century stuff , and the capital letters E. R. , in the character of the period , over the large window , are in excellent preservation . The To the left across the river is the ...
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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.