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... remarkable . " HARPER'S MAGAZINE . " Autumnal Leaves ' is perhaps the most novel and pleasing of all the numerous books Mr. Francis George Heath has written .. No author of the present generation has gone more deeply into the study of ...
... remarkable . " HARPER'S MAGAZINE . " Autumnal Leaves ' is perhaps the most novel and pleasing of all the numerous books Mr. Francis George Heath has written .. No author of the present generation has gone more deeply into the study of ...
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... remarkable . " HARPER'S MAGAZINE . " Autumnal Leaves ' is perhaps the most novel and pleasing of all the numerous books Mr. Francis George Heath has written . No author of the present generation has gone more deeply into the study of ...
... remarkable . " HARPER'S MAGAZINE . " Autumnal Leaves ' is perhaps the most novel and pleasing of all the numerous books Mr. Francis George Heath has written . No author of the present generation has gone more deeply into the study of ...
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... remarkable , and he thus made a collec- tion of drawings for illustrating his works on picturesque beauty . In 1777 he resigned his school at Cheam , having , at the end of the twenty - five years during which he had held it , realized ...
... remarkable , and he thus made a collec- tion of drawings for illustrating his works on picturesque beauty . In 1777 he resigned his school at Cheam , having , at the end of the twenty - five years during which he had held it , realized ...
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... remarkable in * Mr. Wise , in his valuable work on the New Forest ( London , Smith , Elder , and Co. , 1862 ) refers to the extraordinary effect of the Channel winds on the Oaks on the southern side of the Forest , where he says ( page ...
... remarkable in * Mr. Wise , in his valuable work on the New Forest ( London , Smith , Elder , and Co. , 1862 ) refers to the extraordinary effect of the Channel winds on the Oaks on the southern side of the Forest , where he says ( page ...
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... remarkable size . I remember seeing one , in a meadow near Witham , in Essex , which spread over a space of ground measuring twenty - nine paces . But , in general , all the trees of this sort are of straggling ramification , and ...
... remarkable size . I remember seeing one , in a meadow near Witham , in Essex , which spread over a space of ground measuring twenty - nine paces . But , in general , all the trees of this sort are of straggling ramification , and ...
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Page 300 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Page 282 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 209 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 131 - Court, at any time of the year, glittering with its armed and varnished leaves ? The taller standards at orderly distances, blushing with their natural coral.
Page 282 - That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.
Page 217 - King William II., surnamed Rufus, being slain as before related, was laid in a cart belonging to one Purkess and drawn from hence to Winchester and buried in the cathedral church of that city.
Page 103 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 347 - O'er all the soul his sacred influence breathes! Inflames imagination; through the breast Infuses every tenderness; and far Beyond dim earth exalts the swelling thought.
Page 198 - 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 343 - But see the fading many-coloured woods, Shade deepening over shade, the country round Imbrown ; a crowded umbrage dusk and dun, Of every hue, from wan declining green To sooty dark.