Woodland gleanings, an account of British forest-treesAdam Scott, 1853 |
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... heads For very mightiness , when wintry storms Are maddening the sea ! CARRINGTON . DELIGHTFUL Edlington ! how we love to saunter up and down the broad and verdant pathway that traverses thy wild domain . There , amid the deep imbosomed ...
... heads For very mightiness , when wintry storms Are maddening the sea ! CARRINGTON . DELIGHTFUL Edlington ! how we love to saunter up and down the broad and verdant pathway that traverses thy wild domain . There , amid the deep imbosomed ...
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... head , and twisted in the same form . When young , trees , like striplings , shoot into taper forms . There is a lightness and an airiness about them , which is pleasing ; but they do not spread and receive their just proportions ...
... head , and twisted in the same form . When young , trees , like striplings , shoot into taper forms . There is a lightness and an airiness about them , which is pleasing ; but they do not spread and receive their just proportions ...
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... heads of some , and the undu- lation of others , 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 ...
... heads of some , and the undu- lation of others , 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 ...
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... head or top of the tree above another , there may be two or three subordinate , according to the size of the clump . Different kinds of trees , in the same clump , often occasion a beautiful contrast . There are few trees which will not ...
... head or top of the tree above another , there may be two or three subordinate , according to the size of the clump . Different kinds of trees , in the same clump , often occasion a beautiful contrast . There are few trees which will not ...
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... heads blend ill with the spiry tops of the juniors . Neither have they any connection with each other . The woodman's judgment is shown in leaving the timber - trees at proper intervals , that they may neither hinder each other's growth ...
... heads blend ill with the spiry tops of the juniors . Neither have they any connection with each other . The woodman's judgment is shown in leaving the timber - trees at proper intervals , that they may neither hinder each other's growth ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...