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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... beautiful blue , not like any other blue , not like the violets in the garden , or the sky over the trees , or the geranium in the grass , or the bird's - eyes by the path . He loved them and held them tight in his hand , and went on ...
... beautiful blue , not like any other blue , not like the violets in the garden , or the sky over the trees , or the geranium in the grass , or the bird's - eyes by the path . He loved them and held them tight in his hand , and went on ...
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... beautiful sweet low whistles . Not in those oaks , dear , where the blackbirds whistle to - day ; even the very oaks have gone , though they were so strong that one of them defied the lightning , and lived years and years after it ...
... beautiful sweet low whistles . Not in those oaks , dear , where the blackbirds whistle to - day ; even the very oaks have gone , though they were so strong that one of them defied the lightning , and lived years and years after it ...
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... beautiful . They drew the ploughs along and made the ground give up its sweetness and savour , and while they were doing it , the spiders in the copse spun their silk along from the ashpoles , and the mist in the morning weighed down ...
... beautiful . They drew the ploughs along and made the ground give up its sweetness and savour , and while they were doing it , the spiders in the copse spun their silk along from the ashpoles , and the mist in the morning weighed down ...
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... , do you lie still , and I will talk and sing to you , and you can pick some more flowers when you get up . There is a beautiful shadow there , and I heard the streamlet say that he would sing a little to you ; he SAINT GUIDO . 13.
... , do you lie still , and I will talk and sing to you , and you can pick some more flowers when you get up . There is a beautiful shadow there , and I heard the streamlet say that he would sing a little to you ; he SAINT GUIDO . 13.
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... colour that their plain features were transfigured . The sunlight under their faces made them beautiful . The summer light had been absorbed by the skin , and now shone forth from it again ; as certain 24 THE OPEN AIR .
... colour that their plain features were transfigured . The sunlight under their faces made them beautiful . The summer light had been absorbed by the skin , and now shone forth from it again ; as certain 24 THE OPEN AIR .
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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