The Book of the Seasons: Or, The Calendar of NatureCarey & Lea, 1831 - 404 pages |
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... trees, and marked for certain destruction. The poacher, particularly on moonlight nights, makes havoc with game. Partridges, nestled down in a heap on the stubble, are conspicuous objects ; and hares, driven for food to gardens and ...
... trees, and marked for certain destruction. The poacher, particularly on moonlight nights, makes havoc with game. Partridges, nestled down in a heap on the stubble, are conspicuous objects ; and hares, driven for food to gardens and ...
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... trees , and marked for certain destruction . The poacher , particularly on moonlight nights , makes havoc with game . Partridges , nestled down in a heap on the stubble , are conspicuous objects ; and hares , driven for food to gardens ...
... trees , and marked for certain destruction . The poacher , particularly on moonlight nights , makes havoc with game . Partridges , nestled down in a heap on the stubble , are conspicuous objects ; and hares , driven for food to gardens ...
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... trees and bushes , at the same time that they are dazzled with the glare of a torch , and , flying instinc- tively towards the light , are knocked down and secured . This is called in some counties bird- moping ; and in this manner are ...
... trees and bushes , at the same time that they are dazzled with the glare of a torch , and , flying instinc- tively towards the light , are knocked down and secured . This is called in some counties bird- moping ; and in this manner are ...
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... trees which are exposed to all the severity of the open air are not the less safe . Their buds com- pactly defended ... tree during the night will be found to be com- pletely frozen through , while its fellows , still upon the tree ...
... trees which are exposed to all the severity of the open air are not the less safe . Their buds com- pactly defended ... tree during the night will be found to be com- pletely frozen through , while its fellows , still upon the tree ...
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... trees , etc .; and game in the woods demand frequently the same at- tention . Buck - wheat is sown in the corners and open spaces in woods , as it bears very well the shade of trees , and is stacked in the ridings for the game . In ...
... trees , etc .; and game in the woods demand frequently the same at- tention . Buck - wheat is sown in the corners and open spaces in woods , as it bears very well the shade of trees , and is stacked in the ridings for the game . In ...
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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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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.