Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons, ...Mary Botham Howitt H. G. Bohn, 1854 - 567 páginas |
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... early ages as the commencement of their year . Baronius , in his Martyrology , supposes that they did so because about this time Christ was born , and by his rising illuminated as it were the world , till then obscured by darkness . But ...
... early ages as the commencement of their year . Baronius , in his Martyrology , supposes that they did so because about this time Christ was born , and by his rising illuminated as it were the world , till then obscured by darkness . But ...
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... early Christians . That it was imported into Britain with the new religion seems highly probable ; but at the same time we must not forget that the Mithraic worship of the Hindoos had a kindred ceremony in the huli , though at a ...
... early Christians . That it was imported into Britain with the new religion seems highly probable ; but at the same time we must not forget that the Mithraic worship of the Hindoos had a kindred ceremony in the huli , though at a ...
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... early Fathers of the Church as Christianity became more firmly established and they felt themselves in a position to dictate . But though to make the heathens abandon their gods was comparatively speaking an easy matter , it seems to ...
... early Fathers of the Church as Christianity became more firmly established and they felt themselves in a position to dictate . But though to make the heathens abandon their gods was comparatively speaking an easy matter , it seems to ...
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... Early in the morning common people assemble with stangs , that is , poles , -and baskets , and whatever unlucky inhabitant or stranger chances to cross their way , he is compelled to do homage to their saint , or submit to the penalty ...
... Early in the morning common people assemble with stangs , that is , poles , -and baskets , and whatever unlucky inhabitant or stranger chances to cross their way , he is compelled to do homage to their saint , or submit to the penalty ...
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... early , hour the next morning . Cards are introduced , and the merry tale goes round . This in Herefordshire is called wassailing ; and the fires , as I shall have occasion to show hereafter , are nothing else than the ancient ...
... early , hour the next morning . Cards are introduced , and the merry tale goes round . This in Herefordshire is called wassailing ; and the fires , as I shall have occasion to show hereafter , are nothing else than the ancient ...
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Términos y frases comunes
amongst ancient animal aphides appear autumn beautiful bees begin birds blossoms blue boughs branches bright buds called Candlemas chaffinch Christmas church clouds cockchafer cold colour corn cowslip cuckoo custom dark delight Druids earth Easter egg eggs female festival fieldfare fields fire flowers forest frost garden grass green hath head hear heart heaven hedges hour insects labour lamb larvæ leaves light look marsh-marigold MARY HOWITT meadows merry Michaelmas misletoe month morning nature nest night nightingale o'er observed passing PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY plants Plough Monday poet quadrupeds queen Roman rose round Saxon says season seems seen sheep Shrove Tuesday sing skylark snow song species spring stars stream summer swallow sweet thee thou torpid trees voice walk weather whole wild WILLIAM HOWITT wind wings winter woods yellow young
Pasajes populares
Página 216 - I cannot see what flowers are at my feet Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet...
Página 209 - Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not. Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower.
Página 209 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Página 147 - Thrice welcome, darling of the spring; Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing; A voice, a mystery...
Página 105 - ... Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company : I gazed — and gazed — but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought : For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with...
Página 105 - I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Página 64 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take; learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; learn from the beasts the physic of the field; thy arts of building from the bee receive ; learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; learn of the little nautilus to sail, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.
Página 210 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not ; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 548 - And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly tree.
Página 90 - It is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before. The red-breast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the green field.