The Rural Life of England, Volume 2Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838 - 386 pagine |
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Pagina 47
... - rail is broken down , and his hat is blown away by the wind . Old people caught in storms on wide , open heaths ; old , weary people far away from any town , as indi- cated by a mile - stone marked XI . miles THE COUNTRY . 47.
... - rail is broken down , and his hat is blown away by the wind . Old people caught in storms on wide , open heaths ; old , weary people far away from any town , as indi- cated by a mile - stone marked XI . miles THE COUNTRY . 47.
Pagina 56
... heaths and moors , by sedgy pools and running waters . He saw bird , beast , and fish , from his hidden places , in all the freedom of their wild life . He saw the angler casting his line ; the fowler setting his net and his springes ...
... heaths and moors , by sedgy pools and running waters . He saw bird , beast , and fish , from his hidden places , in all the freedom of their wild life . He saw the angler casting his line ; the fowler setting his net and his springes ...
Pagina 59
... heaths , and mosses . Here and there a little simple town sending up Its fleecy smoke amongst the forest boughs . From age to age no tumult did arouse Its peaceful dwellers ; there they lived and died , Passing a dreamy life ...
... heaths , and mosses . Here and there a little simple town sending up Its fleecy smoke amongst the forest boughs . From age to age no tumult did arouse Its peaceful dwellers ; there they lived and died , Passing a dreamy life ...
Pagina 84
... heaths , morasses and thickets ; interspersed with hamlets and farms , and forest - huts , as were the forests of ... heath to heath ; now coming out on the high ground , as on the Ringwood road , the wild forest lying visible for miles ...
... heaths , morasses and thickets ; interspersed with hamlets and farms , and forest - huts , as were the forests of ... heath to heath ; now coming out on the high ground , as on the Ringwood road , the wild forest lying visible for miles ...
Pagina 88
... heaths , treading on plants that grow only in nature's most unculti- vated soil , to the mighty beeches of Boldre Wood , and thence away to fresh masses of forest . Herds of red - deer rose from the fern , and went bounding away , and ...
... heaths , treading on plants that grow only in nature's most unculti- vated soil , to the mighty beeches of Boldre Wood , and thence away to fresh masses of forest . Herds of red - deer rose from the fern , and went bounding away , and ...
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admiration amid amongst amusements ancient bear-baiting beauty bells Ben Jonson Bewick Blackwood's Magazine Boldre boughs bull-baiting Cann cattle charm Christmas church Cornwall cottage crown customs dancing deep deer delight Derbyshire Devon earth England English enjoyment eyes fair feeling festival fields fire flowers forest garden gone green hamlet happy head hear heart heaths heaven Henry VIII herd Hesiod hills holy human king labourers Lancashire land light literature living look Lord May-day May-pole merry mighty mind modern moorland morning mountains nature neighbouring noble Nottingham once passion peace picturesque play pleasure poetical poetry poets poor quintain racter red deer rich Robin Hood round rural rustic scene Scotland seems seen shew singing solitary soul sound spirit Staffordshire stand stone stream sublime summer sweet taste Theocritus things thou tion town trees village walk whole wild wonderful woods young
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Pagina 112 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Pagina 16 - Nature led ; more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.
Pagina 17 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Pagina 23 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Pagina 344 - Ah ! slowly sink Behind the western ridge, thou glorious Sun ! Shine in the slant beams of the sinking orb, Ye purple heath-flowers ! richlier burn, ye clouds ! Live in the yellow light, ye distant groves! And kindle, thou blue Ocean ! So my friend Struck with deep joy may stand, as I have stood, Silent with swimming sense...
Pagina 21 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul...
Pagina 364 - UPON a time, before the faery broods Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods, Before King Oberon's bright diadem, Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy gem, Frighted away the Dryads and the Fauns...
Pagina 160 - Besides, the childhood of the day has kept Against you come, some orient pearls unwept. Come, and receive them while the light Hangs on the dew-locks of the night, And Titan on the eastern hill Betires himself, or else stands still Till you come forth.
Pagina 20 - If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Pagina 160 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street And open fields and we not see't? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May: And sin no more, as we have done, by staying; But, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.