...I. " The Knot There's No Untying" . . . .245 I CHAPTER n. PART I. WINTER. CHAPTER I. MELLSTOCK-LANE. TO dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree...ash hisses amid its quiverings ; the beech rustles whije its flat boughs rise and fall. And winter, which modifies the note of such trees as shed their...

...another. To such an one it would be a revelation, to many another a sweet memory, to hear that — To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree...quiverings; the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise und fall ; and winter, which modifies the note of such trees as shed their leaves, does not destroy...

...melLIVINC AGE VOL. nx. 3127 ody, which echoes through all his books. v'To dwellers in a wood," he tells us, "almost every species of tree has its voice as well...as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quaverings; the beech rustles as its flat boughs rise and fall." Here is lore which will always elude...

...as it beats against the stones of the Chesil Bank or as it sounds through different kinds of trees. "To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree...well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock ; the holly whistles as it battles with itself...

...blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. 222. At the passing of the breeze, the fir-trees sob and...beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall. 223. Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest...

...190 The Dance 264 Nightingale 270 UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE PART I. WINTER CHAPTER I MELLSTOCK-LANE To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing^of the breeze, the ITr-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock ; the holly whistles...

...common name. Nor is this humanizing of trees a lost art among modern writers. Says Thomas Hardy in Under the Greenwood Tree: "To dwellers in a wood almost...species of tree has its voice as well as its feature." The pathos of "one impulse from the vernal wood" is not altogether dead. A species of wild flower found...

...the English country-side seemed to the English incomparably beautiful. Take the opening sentences of Under the Greenwood Tree: "To dwellers in a wood almost...every species of tree has its voice as well as its features. At the passing of the breeze the firtrees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock;...

...a workshop? But that intimacy with nature which Hardy depicted in Under the Greenwood Tree(1 872) - 'To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature' - was plainly incomprehensible to people who could not distinguish one tree from another. Provincial...

...little too far to annotate the opening paragraph of the novel: To dwellers in a wood, almost even,' species of tree has its voice as well as its feature....as it battles with itself: the ash hisses amid its quivering: the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall. And winter, which modifies the note...