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... is a natural pavement here as well as in the deep lanes ; and this character
extends to great part at least of the Playstow , which is rough , stony , and in bad
order , and the sycamore tree is stunted and has its leaves half covered with dark
...
... is a natural pavement here as well as in the deep lanes ; and this character
extends to great part at least of the Playstow , which is rough , stony , and in bad
order , and the sycamore tree is stunted and has its leaves half covered with dark
...
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The village continues straggling along for more than half a mile to the south - east
of White ' s residence . The greater number of houses are on the left - hand side
proceeding in this direction , and this is the side on which there is a sort of foot ...
The village continues straggling along for more than half a mile to the south - east
of White ' s residence . The greater number of houses are on the left - hand side
proceeding in this direction , and this is the side on which there is a sort of foot ...
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This is not the case ; for the house alluded to is a plain thatched cottage , white -
washed certainly , as it should be , as it appears among trees , and having some
of its openings very simply ornamented in a sort of half rustic and half Gothic ...
This is not the case ; for the house alluded to is a plain thatched cottage , white -
washed certainly , as it should be , as it appears among trees , and having some
of its openings very simply ornamented in a sort of half rustic and half Gothic ...
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GILBERT WHITE is , however , the true interpreter of Selborne , and remains ,
and will long remain , its principal attraction ; because , though he has now been
nearly half a century under the grassy turf , his delineations are as fresh , as true
to ...
GILBERT WHITE is , however , the true interpreter of Selborne , and remains ,
and will long remain , its principal attraction ; because , though he has now been
nearly half a century under the grassy turf , his delineations are as fresh , as true
to ...
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The down , or sheep - walk , is a pleasing parklike spot , of about one mile by half
that space , jutting out on the verge of the hill country , where it begins to break
down into the B plains , and commanding a very engaging view , being THE ...
The down , or sheep - walk , is a pleasing parklike spot , of about one mile by half
that space , jutting out on the verge of the hill country , where it begins to break
down into the B plains , and commanding a very engaging view , being THE ...
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Seite 337 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Seite 4 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings, where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Seite 79 - Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape sinks in night; To hear the drowsy dorr come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry...
Seite 157 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year ; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.
Seite 140 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Seite 147 - Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity; but as the noons of that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called forth by the heat in the middle of the day; and though I continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet the work remained unfinished.
Seite 186 - He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird, and very injurious to men that kept bees ; for he would slide into their beegardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out.
Seite 186 - ... and at once disarm them of their weapons, and suck their bodies for the sake of their honey-bags. Sometimes he would fill his bosom between his shirt and his skin with a number of those captives; and sometimes would confine them in bottles.
Seite 228 - The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it, that when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden: however, in the evening, the weather being cold, it buried itself in the loose mould, and continues still concealed.
Seite 271 - ... the other as on the land ; yet no one, as far as I am aware, has remarked that diving fowls, while under water, impel and row themselves forward by a motion of their wings, as well as by the impulse of their feet...
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities: Naturalist's Calendar, Etc |
| Autor/in | Gilbert White |
| Herausgeber | Edward Blythe |
| Verlag | W.S. Orr and Company, 1850 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 15. Apr. 2008 |
| Länge | 418 Seiten |
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