June: a book for the country in summer timeLongman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1856 - 141页 |
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Ambleside animal appearance arrived Arthur's Seat attention beautiful beetles Bideford birds Blackheath blossoms botanists Botany boys branch breeze bright butterflies caterpillar charms day in June delight Devonshire disposed Dunoon enjoy enjoyment Entomology extent fancy feel fields flowers gaze girls Gourock grass green Greenock ground H. T. STAINTON habits happy hedges hill side Holy Loch Hurst Green ignorant insects interest Isle of Arran Kilmun labours Lake lane larvæ leaves Loch Long London look ment moth mountain natural history naturalist never object observation peculiar Penge Common perhaps plants pleasant pleasure Polygala vulgaris portion readers road scene scenery Scotland season seen species spot stand summer summit teacher thing tion Torquay tourist traveller trees Tunbridge variety vegetable Wadhurst walk weather whilst whole wild wish wonder wood young
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第72页 - In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.
第72页 - Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous, God hath written in those stars above; But not less in the bright flowerets under us Stands the revelation of his love.
第77页 - Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
第24页 - Men that undertake only one district are much more likely to advance natural knowledge than those that grasp at more than they can possibly be acquainted with : every kingdom, every province, should have its own monographer.
第125页 - You foreknow your doom by sad experience. A great deal of dressing, a lounge in the club-room, a stare out of the window with the telescope, an attempt to take a bad sketch, a walk up one parade and down another, interminable reading of the silliest of novels, over which you fall asleep on a bench in the sun, and probably have your umbrella stolen; a purposeless fine-weather sail in a yacht, accompanied by...
第95页 - The World of Insects; a Guide to its Wonders. By JW DOUGLAS, Secretary to the Entomological Society of London. This work contains rambling observations on the more interesting members of the Insect World to be found in the House, the Garden, the Orchard, the Fields, the Hedges, on the Fences, the Heaths and Commons, the Downs, in the Woods, the Waters, or on the Sea Shore, or on Mountains.
第77页 - Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.
第34页 - ... of the poor man as of the rich ; or rather more so. To learn the art of contentment is only to learn what happiness actually consists in. Sensual pleasures add little to its substance.