Woodland gleanings, an account of British forest-treesAdam Scott, 1853 |
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... give a detailed notice of some of the component parts of the woodland scenery , beginning with the single tree . We feel no hesitation in calling a tree the grandest and most beautiful of all the various productions of the earth . In ...
... give a detailed notice of some of the component parts of the woodland scenery , beginning with the single tree . We feel no hesitation in calling a tree the grandest and most beautiful of all the various productions of the earth . In ...
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... gives lustre to the trunk , and has its effect ; yet , on the whole , it is a nuis- ance , for as it generally begins to thrive when the other mosses begin to wither , it is rarely accom- panied with any of the more beautiful species of ...
... gives lustre to the trunk , and has its effect ; yet , on the whole , it is a nuis- ance , for as it generally begins to thrive when the other mosses begin to wither , it is rarely accom- panied with any of the more beautiful species of ...
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... . NEALE . Ivy also gives great richness to an old trunk , both by its stem , which often winds round it in thick , hairy , irregular volumes ; and by its leaf , which either decks the furrowed bark , or creeps among 22 INTRODUCTION .
... . NEALE . Ivy also gives great richness to an old trunk , both by its stem , which often winds round it in thick , hairy , irregular volumes ; and by its leaf , which either decks the furrowed bark , or creeps among 22 INTRODUCTION .
Pàgina 24
... give a continual variety to their forms . In nature this is certainly a circumstance of great beauty : Things in motion sooner catch the eye Than what stirs not ; and this also affords the chequered shade , formed under it by the ...
... give a continual variety to their forms . In nature this is certainly a circumstance of great beauty : Things in motion sooner catch the eye Than what stirs not ; and this also affords the chequered shade , formed under it by the ...
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... give nature's planting a superiority over art . The form of the foliage is another source of con- trast . In one part , where the branches intermingle , the foliage will be interwoven and close ; in another , where the boughs of each ...
... give nature's planting a superiority over art . The form of the foliage is another source of con- trast . In one part , where the branches intermingle , the foliage will be interwoven and close ; in another , where the boughs of each ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 36 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Pàgina 91 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Pàgina 276 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! — and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved, — Nor uninformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane...
Pàgina 54 - 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 pass'd away.
Pàgina 228 - Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on. — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Pàgina 39 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Pàgina 36 - ... at once All their green tops, stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless Power And inaccessible Majesty. Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised 1 Let me, at least, Here in the shadow of this aged wood, Offer one hymn — thrice happy, if it find Acceptance in his ear. Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns ; thou Didst weave this verdant...
Pàgina 181 - Thought cannot spend itself, comparing still The great and little of thy lot, thy growth From almost nullity into a state Of matchless grandeur, and declension thence, Slow, into such magnificent decay. Time was, when, settling on thy leaf, a fly Could shake thee to the root — and time has been When tempests could not.
Pàgina 180 - Time made thee what thou wast, king of the woods ; And time hath made thee what thou art— a cave For owls to roost in.
Pàgina 176 - 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...