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The brickpath at the back of the house , in the paddock , at Selborne , was laid
down by him upwards of a century since , that in his old age he might be able to
walk into his field in the early morning without wetting his feet . It remains to this
day ...
The brickpath at the back of the house , in the paddock , at Selborne , was laid
down by him upwards of a century since , that in his old age he might be able to
walk into his field in the early morning without wetting his feet . It remains to this
day ...
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Farm - houses , with their barns and straw - yards , hop - lands , and corn - fields ,
and what is seldom seen in these degenerate days , a may - pole , add to the
beauty of the scenery . And here I may be allowed to quote a passage or two from
...
Farm - houses , with their barns and straw - yards , hop - lands , and corn - fields ,
and what is seldom seen in these degenerate days , a may - pole , add to the
beauty of the scenery . And here I may be allowed to quote a passage or two from
...
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it only when its fields and foliage are clothed in their summer verdure , or
autumnal russet , and lighted up in genial sunshine ; for its beauty is of the joyous
seasons , fitted neither to be observed by the sullen influence of a rainy day , nor
torn ...
it only when its fields and foliage are clothed in their summer verdure , or
autumnal russet , and lighted up in genial sunshine ; for its beauty is of the joyous
seasons , fitted neither to be observed by the sullen influence of a rainy day , nor
torn ...
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... sun opposed : Lovely refraction ! while the vivid brede In listed colours glows ,
th ' unconscious swain , With vacant eye , gazes on the divine Phenomenon ,
gleaming o'er the illumined fields , Or runs to catch the treasures which it sheds .
... sun opposed : Lovely refraction ! while the vivid brede In listed colours glows ,
th ' unconscious swain , With vacant eye , gazes on the divine Phenomenon ,
gleaming o'er the illumined fields , Or runs to catch the treasures which it sheds .
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... or , stretch'd from blade to blade , The wavy net - work whitens all the field .
Push'd by the weightier atmosphere , up springs The ponderous mercury , from
scale to scale Mounting , amidst the Torricellian tube . * While high in air , and
poised ...
... or , stretch'd from blade to blade , The wavy net - work whitens all the field .
Push'd by the weightier atmosphere , up springs The ponderous mercury , from
scale to scale Mounting , amidst the Torricellian tube . * While high in air , and
poised ...
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's Calendar Bohn's illustrated library |
| Autor/in | Gilbert White |
| Verlag | G. Bell, 1890 |
| Original von | Northwestern University |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Dez. 2010 |
| Länge | 416 Seiten |
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