The Youth's Book of Nature, Or The Four Seasons Illustrated: Being Familiar Descriptions of Natural History Made During Walks in the CountryD. Appleton & Company, 1844 |
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... bright yellow . It is a shy bird , and builds very early in the season . See , the nest is formed of moss , dead grass , and clay ; but the innermost lining is from the hay - stack . Does not the Blackbird lay more than two eggs ,. 30 ...
... bright yellow . It is a shy bird , and builds very early in the season . See , the nest is formed of moss , dead grass , and clay ; but the innermost lining is from the hay - stack . Does not the Blackbird lay more than two eggs ,. 30 ...
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... bright . " But did you observe , Edward , how beautifully the hawthorn is coming into blossom ? * I did ; the country will soon present , One boundless blush , one white empurpled shower Of mingled blossoms ! I told you about this ...
... bright . " But did you observe , Edward , how beautifully the hawthorn is coming into blossom ? * I did ; the country will soon present , One boundless blush , one white empurpled shower Of mingled blossoms ! I told you about this ...
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... bright ; it is a beautiful little flower . This belongs to the same class as the ground ivy , only it is of the second order , and the seeds are covered . It was used by medical men for disorders in the eyes , many years since ; I do ...
... bright ; it is a beautiful little flower . This belongs to the same class as the ground ivy , only it is of the second order , and the seeds are covered . It was used by medical men for disorders in the eyes , many years since ; I do ...
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... Bright stranger , welcome to my field , Here feed in safety , -here thy radiance yield ; To me , O nightly , be thy splendours giv'n ; O could a wish of mine the skies command , How would I gem the leaf with liberal hand , With every ...
... Bright stranger , welcome to my field , Here feed in safety , -here thy radiance yield ; To me , O nightly , be thy splendours giv'n ; O could a wish of mine the skies command , How would I gem the leaf with liberal hand , With every ...
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... bright orange colour , inclining to red . It is very apt to take bits of lighted sticks from the fire . It has been called , on this account , the incendiary crow ; as it has been known to set a house on fire . Indeed ; it is a singular ...
... bright orange colour , inclining to red . It is very apt to take bits of lighted sticks from the fire . It has been called , on this account , the incendiary crow ; as it has been known to set a house on fire . Indeed ; it is a singular ...
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Page 207 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page vi - Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And* every sense and every heart is joy. Then comes thy glory in the summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Page 108 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth. The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.
Page 56 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 65 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 65 - Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet From birds among the bowers.
Page 106 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem : To spare thee now is past my power, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie lark, companion meet, Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' speckled breast, When upward-springing, blithe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 161 - Nature utters are delightful, at least in this country. I should not perhaps find the roaring of lions in Africa or of bears in Russia very pleasing; but I know no beast in England, whose voice I do not account musical, save and except always the braying of an ass. The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without one exception. I should not, indeed, think of keeping a goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the parlour for the sake of his melody, but a goose upon a common, or in a farm...
Page 4 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ? thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the LORD your God.
Page 14 - Meet there and madden, — waves innumerable Urge on and overtake the waves before, And disappear in thunder and in foam. They reach, they leap the barrier, — the abyss Swallows insatiable the sinking waves. A thousand rainbows arch them, and the woods Are deafened with the roar. The violent shock Shatters to vapor the descending sheets.