Days and Hours in a GardenRoberts Bros., 1884 - Всего страниц: 204 |
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... the house , a staunch good old building . " It seems George Evelyn ( the author's cousin ) , was amongst the many who have lived here At that time eighty acres of wood once . surrounded the house , where now there lies a treeless. I. ...
... the house , a staunch good old building . " It seems George Evelyn ( the author's cousin ) , was amongst the many who have lived here At that time eighty acres of wood once . surrounded the house , where now there lies a treeless. I. ...
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... they have to use the pick to break it up . Bones of large dogs also are found all about the place whenever the ground is broken , - remains of the watch dogs , or hunting dogs , once . of the olden time , -also quaintly - 4 DAYS AND HOURS.
... they have to use the pick to break it up . Bones of large dogs also are found all about the place whenever the ground is broken , - remains of the watch dogs , or hunting dogs , once . of the olden time , -also quaintly - 4 DAYS AND HOURS.
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Eleanor Vere Boyle. once . of the olden time , -also quaintly - shaped tobacco - pipes . I know of nothing to sup- port the tradition that monks abode here There were signs of an upstairs room having at some remote time been used as a ...
Eleanor Vere Boyle. once . of the olden time , -also quaintly - shaped tobacco - pipes . I know of nothing to sup- port the tradition that monks abode here There were signs of an upstairs room having at some remote time been used as a ...
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... once . These " gardens on a flat " are transformed . There now are close - trimmed Yew hedges , some of those first planted being 8 feet 6 inches high , and nearly 3 feet through , while others are kept low and square . There are Yews ...
... once . These " gardens on a flat " are transformed . There now are close - trimmed Yew hedges , some of those first planted being 8 feet 6 inches high , and nearly 3 feet through , while others are kept low and square . There are Yews ...
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... once in the night , causing a melancholy gap . In the kitchen garden a bright red Rose or two remains , but along the east border the half - blown buds are rotted away . In the centre of one drenched pink bloom I saw a poor drone ...
... once in the night , causing a melancholy gap . In the kitchen garden a bright red Rose or two remains , but along the east border the half - blown buds are rotted away . In the centre of one drenched pink bloom I saw a poor drone ...
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amongst Anemones Apple Atalanta Aucuba autumn beautiful beds Beech birds bloom blossoms blue border branches bright broad walk brown buds bushes charming Christmas Rose Clematis colour corner crimson Cryptomeria Daffodils Dahlia dark DAYS AND HOURS deep delight Elms fantail pigeons Fantaisie favourite flowers foliage frost glow golden Grape Hyacinths grass green grey growing Hyacinths Iris Irises kind Laburnum lawn leaf leaves lilac Lilies Lobelia look loveliness lovely morning moss Moss Rose Narcissus Narcissus poeticus nests never once Pæony pale parterr patch Peas perfect petals Phlox plant pleasant Poppies Primroses purple rain Rhododendrons rooks Roses round Salvia patens scarcely scarlet scent season seems shade shining side smell sort spring stalks stems stone Stone Pine summer Sunflower sweet tall thing Thorn thrushes trees Tulips turf Vine Violets wall white Pink wild window winter yellow Yew hedges young
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Стр. 47 - In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity : The north cannot undo them With a sleety whistle through them, Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime. In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook. Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look ; But with a sweet forgetting They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. Ah ! would 'twere so with many A gentle girl and boy ! But were there...
Стр. 176 - Ah, Sunflower! Ah, sunflower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.
Стр. 163 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flow'r of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Стр. 5 - In busy companies of men. Your sacred plants, if here below, Only among the plants will grow; Society is all but rude To this delicious solitude. No white nor red was ever seen So amorous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress
Стр. 76 - The spurging of a dead man's eyes : And all since the evening starre did rise. 3 WITCH I last night lay all alone O...
Стр. 186 - How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom, — in graceful succession, in equal fulness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unravelled, nor shown.
Стр. 50 - To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again.
Стр. 98 - DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY has come up to town, In a yellow petticoat, and a green gown.
Стр. 152 - More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before : The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past