Transactions of the Watford Natural History Society and Hertfordshire Field Club, Volumen 2Hardwicke and Bogue, 1880 |
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Albans animals appearance April beds bees birds Boxmoor Brett Bricket Wood British Bulborne Bushey butterfly Cassiobury Cassiobury Park Chalk clay Colne colour common district earth eggs feet FIELD CLUB FIELD MEETING fish flora flowers force Gade garden geological George Fordham glacial gravel Greensand ground Harpenden Hemel Hempstead Hertford Hertfordshire Hill Hitchin hive Hoddesdon Holly Bank Honorary Secretary Hunton Bridge inch insect JOHN EVANS JOHN HOPKINSON July June King's Langley land Langleybury larvæ lime Littleboy London London Clay manure Meteorological microscope mineral month NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY NATURALISTS neighbourhood nest noticed observed Odsey Park plants poisonous portion President probably queen R. B. Croft rain rainfall Redbourn remarkable Report river rocks seen species specimens spot station taken thermometer Transactions tree Wansford Wansford House Ware Watford wind winter wood
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Página 24 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Página 56 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Página 22 - Ah woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year; The airs and streams renew their joyous tone; The ants, the bees, the swallows, reappear; Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead Season's bier; The amorous birds now pair in every brake, And build their mossy homes in field and brere; And the green lizard and the golden snake, Like unimprisoned flames, out of their trance awake.
Página 57 - Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!
Página 128 - My heart is awed within me when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me, — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Página 24 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Página 171 - GEOLOGY is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it inquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.
Página 14 - Duchess marked his weary pace, His timid mien, and reverend face, And bade her page the menials tell That they should tend the old man well: For she had known adversity, Though born in such a high degree; In pride of power, in beauty's bloom, Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb!
Página 27 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Página 50 - Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...