The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 páginas |
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... give any idea of the pleasure to be derived from this volume . " - Derby Mercury . " The charm that may be found in pure and admirably modulated prose could scarcely find better example than in ' The Life of the Fields , ' a number of ...
... give any idea of the pleasure to be derived from this volume . " - Derby Mercury . " The charm that may be found in pure and admirably modulated prose could scarcely find better example than in ' The Life of the Fields , ' a number of ...
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... colour . A rough wind gives us one tint , and heavy rain another , and we look different on a cloudy day to what we do on a sunny one . All these colours changed on us when the blackbird was whistling 10 THE OPEN AIR .
... colour . A rough wind gives us one tint , and heavy rain another , and we look different on a cloudy day to what we do on a sunny one . All these colours changed on us when the blackbird was whistling 10 THE OPEN AIR .
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... 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 their threads . It was so delicious to come out of the clods ...
... 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 their threads . It was so delicious to come out of the clods ...
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... give you all heaps and heaps of flowers ! Don't go away , darling , 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 ...
... give you all heaps and heaps of flowers ! Don't go away , darling , 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 ...
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... give you , just as we have the sunshine and the rain ? How happy your people could be if they would only agree ! But you go on teaching even the little children to follow the same silly objects , hum , hum , hum , all the day , and they ...
... give you , just as we have the sunshine and the rain ? How happy your people could be if they would only agree ! But you go on teaching even the little children to follow the same silly objects , hum , hum , hum , all the day , and they ...
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A. B. GROSART autumn beautiful birds black-headed bunting blue boats boughs BRET HARTE bright Brighton brown bushes butterfly CHARLES cloth extra cloth limp colour copse corn creature Crown 8vo curve dark Demy 8vo earth edge Edited elms face Fcap fern field fish flowers Frontispiece gilt golden grass green Guido Guy Waterman heart heat hedge Illus illustrated boards JAMES DE MILLE labour Lady leaves light London look Love meadow morning nature nest never Novel pass PICCADILLY NOVELS pleasant plough Poems Post 8vo rain rise river road ROBERT BUCHANAN roof rooks round rush seems shadow side song sparrows spot stalks starlings Stories stream summer sunlight sunshine swallows Thames thick things thought thousand Three Vols tint trees VERNEY LOVETT CAMERON walk wave wheat wild wind wings winter wood yellow
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