Through the Fields with Linnæus: A Chapter in Swedish History, Volumen 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1886 |
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Through the Fields with Linnæus: A Chapter in Swedish History, Volumen 2 Florence Caddy Vista de fragmentos - 1887 |
Términos y frases comunes
admire animals beautiful Bernard de Jussieu Blåkulla boat Boerhaave Borgholm Borgholm Castle botanical garden botanist botany built called Carl castle Celsius charming church collection Count Tessin delight Diary Dillenius Dutch Elizabeth Ellis English Fabricius Falun Fårö father Flora flowers French Gothenburg Gothland Haller Hammarby Hartecamp hill Holland honour Hortus Cliffortianus insects island journey June Jussieu Kalmar Karlsborg king Köping lake land Lapland learned letter Leyden Lidköping Linnæan Linnæus Linnæus's Linné living look Lund miles mind Moræus Motala Museum næus natural history naturalist never night Norsholm Öland Öland horses plants pleasant portrait professor pupils queen river rocks Rosen round royal runic stone seems side Skåne Småland Smith Solander Stenbrohult Stockholm Stoever Sweden Swedish things tion took tour town travelled trees Upsala Venern village whole Wisby woods writes young Ystad
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Página 322 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day ; The pictures placed for ornament and use, The Twelve Good Rules, the royal game of Goose...
Página 163 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Página 249 - twere a little sky Gulfed in a world below ; A firmament of purple light, Which in the dark earth lay, More boundless than the depth of night, And purer than the day...
Página 8 - If you come to settle here, we will have one day in the week on which we will meet by ourselves. That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
Página 1 - But for the steady fore-sense of a freer and larger existence, Think you that man could consent to be circumscribed here into action? But for assurance within of a limitless ocean divine, o'er Whose great tranquil depths unconscious the wind-tost surface Breaks into ripples of trouble that come and change and endure not, — But that in this, of a truth, we have our being, and know it, Think you we men could submit to live and move as we do here?
Página 295 - TwAS a lovely thought to mark the hours, As they floated in light away, By the opening and the folding flowers, That laugh to the summer's day.
Página 322 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place; The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Página 295 - When shepherds gathered their flocks of old By the blue Arcadian streams. So in those isles of delight, that rest Far off in a breezeless main, Which many a bark, with a weary quest Has sought, but still in vain.
Página 249 - ... lightest wind was in its nest, The tempest in its home. The whispering waves were half asleep, The clouds were gone to play, And on the bosom of the deep The smile of heaven lay ; It...
Página 214 - I know it has a bad name, but my wife and I always happened to be fond of it, and if I were to leave Rugby for no demerit of my own, I would take to it again with all the pleasure in life. I enjoyed, and do enjoy, the society of youths of seventeen or eighteen, for they are all alive in limbs and spirits at least, if not in mind, while in older persons the body and spirits often become lazy and languid without the mind gaining any vigour to compensate for it.