The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1901 - 302 páginas Papers originally contributed to various English periodicals. Saint Guido.--Golden-brown.--Wild flowers.--Sunny Brighton.--The pine wood.--Nature on the roof.--One of the new voters.--The modern Thames.--The single-barrel gun.--The haunt of the hare.--The bathing season.--Under the acorns.--Downs.--Forest.--Beauty in the country.--Out of doors in February.--Haunts of the lapwing.--Outside London.--On the London road.--Red roofs of London.--A wet night in London. |
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... Italy ; from harsh sea - slopes , made dry with salt as they sow salt on razed cities that naught may grow , to warm plains rich in all things , and with great hills as pictures hung on a wall to gaze at . Where there are beech - trees ...
... Italy ; from harsh sea - slopes , made dry with salt as they sow salt on razed cities that naught may grow , to warm plains rich in all things , and with great hills as pictures hung on a wall to gaze at . Where there are beech - trees ...
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... Italy . Light pours down , and the bitter salt sea wets the pebbles ; to look at them makes the mouth dry , in the unconscious recollection of the saltness and bitterness . The flags droop , the sails of the fishing - boats hang idle ...
... Italy . Light pours down , and the bitter salt sea wets the pebbles ; to look at them makes the mouth dry , in the unconscious recollection of the saltness and bitterness . The flags droop , the sails of the fishing - boats hang idle ...
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... Italian , or Russian , or what . Now I wondered no longer , for the jogger is cosmopolitan . When he had exhausted his lozenge he told me how many times the screw of the steamer revolved while carrying him across the Pacific from ...
... Italian , or Russian , or what . Now I wondered no longer , for the jogger is cosmopolitan . When he had exhausted his lozenge he told me how many times the screw of the steamer revolved while carrying him across the Pacific from ...
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... Italy . Wee - ah - wee ! Some chance move- ment has been noticed by the nearest bird , and away they go at once as if with the same wings , sweeping overhead , then to the right , then to the HAUNTS OF THE LAPWING . 223.
... Italy . Wee - ah - wee ! Some chance move- ment has been noticed by the nearest bird , and away they go at once as if with the same wings , sweeping overhead , then to the right , then to the HAUNTS OF THE LAPWING . 223.
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... Italians care for their pale skies ? I never heard so . We go all over the world in search of beauty - to the keen north , to the cape whence the midnight sun is visible , to the extreme south , to the interior of Africa , gazing at the ...
... Italians care for their pale skies ? I never heard so . We go all over the world in search of beauty - to the keen north , to the cape whence the midnight sun is visible , to the extreme south , to the interior of Africa , gazing at the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
autumn beautiful bees birds black-headed bunting blue boats boughs bramble bright Brighton brown bushes butterfly colour comes copse corn creature curve dark earth edge elms eyot face fern field fish flowers forest gleaming gone grass gray horse green Guido happy heat hedge hills jogger King's Road labour lapwings lark leaves light little Guido London look meadow morning nature nest never newsvendors pass pebbles pheasant pleasant plough plovers rain ramsons red deer RICHARD JEFFERIES rise river road roof rooks round rush seems shadow shot side singing slope sparrows spot stalks starlings stream summer sunlight sunshine surface swallows sward Thames thick things thought thousand tint touch trees walk wall wasps watch wave West Pier wheat whistle wild wind wings winter wood yellow yellowhammer yonder