The juvenile wreath; poems chiefly on subjects of natural history [by T. Gillet].1832 |
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... tribes , which so thickly people the earth , the waters , and the air , and shew the pro- fusion of the Creator in the gift of animation , their diversified and exquisite mechanism , their intuitive economy , and the purposes they were ...
... tribes , which so thickly people the earth , the waters , and the air , and shew the pro- fusion of the Creator in the gift of animation , their diversified and exquisite mechanism , their intuitive economy , and the purposes they were ...
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... tribe , are subjects worthy of our profoundest regard . Aranea , or the spider , also puts in a very power- ful claim for our observance . She is an artist likewise , and without the aid of machinery weaves a web more delicate than was ...
... tribe , are subjects worthy of our profoundest regard . Aranea , or the spider , also puts in a very power- ful claim for our observance . She is an artist likewise , and without the aid of machinery weaves a web more delicate than was ...
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... tribes alluded to above ; not because they oftener occur in sight , or have more intrinsic claims to regard ; but from the superiority of their size , and the gracefulness of their motions , they arrest with greater force the attention ...
... tribes alluded to above ; not because they oftener occur in sight , or have more intrinsic claims to regard ; but from the superiority of their size , and the gracefulness of their motions , they arrest with greater force the attention ...
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... tribes which otherwise would desolate our fields and our gardens . " A pair of sparrows , " it has been observed , " during the time they are feed- ing their young , will destroy about four thousand caterpillars weekly . " The thrush is ...
... tribes which otherwise would desolate our fields and our gardens . " A pair of sparrows , " it has been observed , " during the time they are feed- ing their young , will destroy about four thousand caterpillars weekly . " The thrush is ...
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... tribes suc- ceed , till the most delicate and the most majestic of Flora's train unveil their beauties to the soft breath and ardent smile of summer . In like manner the fruits succeed each other . When stimulated by heat , we have the ...
... tribes suc- ceed , till the most delicate and the most majestic of Flora's train unveil their beauties to the soft breath and ardent smile of summer . In like manner the fruits succeed each other . When stimulated by heat , we have the ...
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Antony and Cleopatra array'd balm beam beauty birds bliss BLITHE bloom blossoms bower breast breath breeze bright buds CHAFFINCH charms cheer chiff chaff chrysolite COLTSFOOT crimson crown'd cuckoo's voice Resounds Cymbeline dark deem'd deep delight dews display doom dreary earth evanescence fair Flora's gale gild glide gloom glory glow GODSTOW NUNNERY grace grove hath heart hearts of youth heaven HEPATICA hour insects light lonely lovelier mead meadows laugh mighty morn nature night nymph o'er pass'd pleasure prey primrose reign rejoice reveller Romeo and Juliet rose round rove rugged scenes season shade shine sighs sing skies and meadows smile soul spread Spring stern storm stream Summer Sweet flower sweetly tempests thee thou thro tide tints Tis the cuckoo's treasures trees tribes Twas twink Venice vernal wandering waves wild wing wither'd woodlark wrapt yonder youth
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Seite 19 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Seite 18 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these 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.
Seite 7 - ... repair, and to the thicket some ; Some to the rude protection of the thorn Commit their feeble offspring. The cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few, Their food its insects, and its moss their nests.
Seite 104 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Seite 16 - That it may please Thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them : We beseech Thee to hear us good Lord.
Seite 40 - In olde dayes of the King Artour, Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, All was this lond fulfilled of faerie; The Elf-quene, with hire joly compagnie, • Danced ful oft in many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede...
Seite 98 - ROSAMUNDS. Thus it continued till about the time of the dissolution, when it was taken up, as we are told by Mr.
Seite 2 - Nature's favourite productions, in which to manifest her power and skill ; she has combined and concentrated almost all that is either beautiful and graceful, interesting and alluring, or curious and singular, in every other class and order of her children. To these, her valued miniatures, she has given the most delicate touch, and highest finish of her pencil.
Seite 98 - ... which a tomb, different from the former, was laid, being a fair large stone, I suppose in form of a coffin, agreeable to those times on which was put this inscription, TUMBA ROSAMUNDS.
Seite 8 - They likewise feed their young with butterflies and other winged insects, each of which, if not destroyed in this manner, would be productive of several hundreds of caterpillars.