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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... rest of spirit found only in beauty , ideal and pure , comes there because the distance seems within touch of thought . To the heaven thought can reach lifted by the strong arms of the oak , carried up by the ascent of the flame- shaped ...
... rest of spirit found only in beauty , ideal and pure , comes there because the distance seems within touch of thought . To the heaven thought can reach lifted by the strong arms of the oak , carried up by the ascent of the flame- shaped ...
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... rest , leans with his elbows backwards on the low rail ; another hangs over and looks down at the site of the fish market ; an older man stands upright , and from long habit looks steadily out to sea . They have their hands in their ...
... rest , leans with his elbows backwards on the low rail ; another hangs over and looks down at the site of the fish market ; an older man stands upright , and from long habit looks steadily out to sea . They have their hands in their ...
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... rest comes through the calm of nature . As the swell of the sea carries up the pebbles , and arranges the largest farthest inland , where they accumulate and stay unmoved , so the drifting of the clouds , and the touch of the wind , the ...
... rest comes through the calm of nature . As the swell of the sea carries up the pebbles , and arranges the largest farthest inland , where they accumulate and stay unmoved , so the drifting of the clouds , and the touch of the wind , the ...
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... rest flying from shrub to shrub , perching , and then following again . They are all perfectly clean - a contrast to the London sparrow . I came across one of these sparrow - tamers by chance , and was much amused at the scene , which ...
... rest flying from shrub to shrub , perching , and then following again . They are all perfectly clean - a contrast to the London sparrow . I came across one of these sparrow - tamers by chance , and was much amused at the scene , which ...
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... rest ; he groaned heavily at times and rolled aside . Once he awoke choking - he could not swallow , his tongue was so dry and large ; he sat up , swore , and again lay down . The rats in the sties had already dis- covered that a man ...
... rest ; he groaned heavily at times and rolled aside . Once he awoke choking - he could not swallow , his tongue was so dry and large ; he sat up , swore , and again lay down . The rats in the sties had already dis- covered that a man ...
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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