Days and Hours in a GardenRoberts Bros., 1884 - Всего страниц: 204 |
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... 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. ...
... 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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... seems so cruel that it should at last be thrown away as if worthless and forgotten ! Some Nar- cissus that have had their day , have just been put into a round bed on the further lawn mixed with the " Mrs. Sinkins " white Pink ; and ...
... seems so cruel that it should at last be thrown away as if worthless and forgotten ! Some Nar- cissus that have had their day , have just been put into a round bed on the further lawn mixed with the " Mrs. Sinkins " white Pink ; and ...
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... seem always to succeed elsewhere as they do with us . am trying to collect every different Iris I know of . We have now several which are very beautiful , and we should have more were it not that numbers die off after , perhaps , one ...
... seem always to succeed elsewhere as they do with us . am trying to collect every different Iris I know of . We have now several which are very beautiful , and we should have more were it not that numbers die off after , perhaps , one ...
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... seem not to care for it , for the fruit is all there - un- touched . I wonder if the name of Spindle comes from the unnatural thinness of the tree ! After these many years of working to a special end 44 DAYS AND HOURS.
... seem not to care for it , for the fruit is all there - un- touched . I wonder if the name of Spindle comes from the unnatural thinness of the tree ! After these many years of working to a special end 44 DAYS AND HOURS.
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... seem now to have almost reached it in one direction , for the garden looks well - nigh as green and furnished in winter as in summer - so far , at least , as the outline of verdure goes . The Yew hedges and Pines and perennial greens ...
... seem now to have almost reached it in one direction , for the garden looks well - nigh as green and furnished in winter as in summer - so far , at least , as the outline of verdure goes . The Yew hedges and Pines and perennial greens ...
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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