The calendar of nature: designed for the instruction and entertainment of young persons [by T. Gosden].1822 |
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... begin reckoning the new year from the first of January . Yet it may seem strange to call that a new season , when every thing is most inactive and lifeless ; when animals are benumbed by the cold , and vegetables are all dead or ...
... begin reckoning the new year from the first of January . Yet it may seem strange to call that a new season , when every thing is most inactive and lifeless ; when animals are benumbed by the cold , and vegetables are all dead or ...
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... begin to pair , and geese to lay . The thrush and chaffinch then add to the early music of the groves . Near the close of the month par- tridges begin to couple , and repair the ravages com- mited on this devoted species during the ...
... begin to pair , and geese to lay . The thrush and chaffinch then add to the early music of the groves . Near the close of the month par- tridges begin to couple , and repair the ravages com- mited on this devoted species during the ...
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... begin his work in the fields as soon as the ground is sufficiently thawed . He plows up his fallows ; sows beans and peas , rye , and spring wheat ; sets early potatoes ; drains his wet land ; dresses and repairs hedges , lops trees ...
... begin his work in the fields as soon as the ground is sufficiently thawed . He plows up his fallows ; sows beans and peas , rye , and spring wheat ; sets early potatoes ; drains his wet land ; dresses and repairs hedges , lops trees ...
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... begin to leave us , and return to the countries where they were bred . The red - wing , thrush , fieldfare , and woodcock , are of this kind ; and they retire to spend their summer in Norway , Sweden , and other parts of the north . The ...
... begin to leave us , and return to the countries where they were bred . The red - wing , thrush , fieldfare , and woodcock , are of this kind ; and they retire to spend their summer in Norway , Sweden , and other parts of the north . The ...
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... ere vernal airs Sprinkle thy little croft with daisy flowers . Another most agreeable token of the arrival of Spring , is that the bees begin to venture out of their hives about the middle of this month . As their 16 CALENDAR OF NATURE .
... ere vernal airs Sprinkle thy little croft with daisy flowers . Another most agreeable token of the arrival of Spring , is that the bees begin to venture out of their hives about the middle of this month . As their 16 CALENDAR OF NATURE .
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agreeable animals appear Autumn Autumnal equinox beans beauty bee-hives bees begin beneath berries birds blossoms blow breath breeze buds CALENDAR OF NATURE catkins cattle chaffinch cheer chill climates clouds cold colours corn countries crowfoot cuckow's Cyder daisies delightful descend earth enlivened face of Nature farmer fieldfare fields flocks flowers frequently frost frozen fruit gale gardens grass green ground groves harvest hawthorn heat hedges herbaceous hoar frost honey husbandman insects juice kinds labour leaves Lichens malt liquor mezereon month morn moult nectarine night northern numerous o'er peculiarly plants plentiful quadrupeds rain ripened rise rivers rural scarcely scythe season seeds September shade SHAKSPEARE sheep shining showers shrubs snow snowdrop songsters soon sowing Spring stalks storms stream sunny bank swallow swarms sweet swelling tender THOMSON thro thrush torpid trees tribe various vegetable verdure whence wild winds Winter wintry woods yellow young
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Page 17 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 38 - Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending, sip The circling surface.
Page 31 - At last, The clouds consign their treasures to the fields ; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshened world. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander through the forest walks, Beneath the' umbrageous multitude of leaves.
Page 65 - Mysterious round ! what skill, what force divine, Deep felt, in these appear ! a simple train, Yet so delightful mix'd, with such kind art, Such beauty and beneficence combined ; Shade, unperceived, so softening into shade; And all so forming an harmonious whole ; That, as they still succeed, they ravish still.
Page 7 - Dig for the withered herb through heaps of snow. Now, shepherds, to your helpless charge be kind, Baffle the raging year, and fill their pens With food at will; lodge them below the storm, And watch them strict : for from the bellowing east, In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains...
Page 22 - Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove ! Thou messenger of Spring! Now Heaven repairs thy rural seat, And woods thy welcome sing. What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear ; Hast thou a star to guide thy path. Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet From birds among the bowers. The school-boy, wandering through the wood To pull...
Page 26 - From the moist meadow to the wither'd hill, Led by the breeze, the vivid verdure runs, And swells, and deepens, to the cherish'd eye. The hawthorn whitens; and the juicy groves Put forth their buds, unfolding by degrees, Till the whole leafy forest stands display'd In full luxuriance to the sighing gales; Where the deer rustle through the twining brake, And the birds sing conceal'd.
Page 21 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
Page 35 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 5 - That wave and glitter in the distant sun. When if a sudden gust of wind arise, The brittle forest into atoms flies...