The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merry-makings, Antiquities and Novelties, on the Plan of the Every-day Book and Table Book, Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times: Forming a Complete History of the Year; and a Perpetual Key to the Almanack |
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Page 433
... trees " as they lie dreaming in their summer shade , and see " the brave branches fan the soft breeze as it passes , or hear the leaves whisper and twitter to each other like birds at love - making . " Nor are those few who have sat ...
... trees " as they lie dreaming in their summer shade , and see " the brave branches fan the soft breeze as it passes , or hear the leaves whisper and twitter to each other like birds at love - making . " Nor are those few who have sat ...
Page 921
... tree , two vines , and three or four walnut - trees , all of them possessing the marks of great age . The mulberry - tree is of the common black species ( morus nigra ) . The tree has a venerable aspect . It had once been both lofty and ...
... tree , two vines , and three or four walnut - trees , all of them possessing the marks of great age . The mulberry - tree is of the common black species ( morus nigra ) . The tree has a venerable aspect . It had once been both lofty and ...
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... trees ; The wild wood music from the lonely dell , Where merry Gypseys o'er their raptures dwell , • Haunting each common's wild and onely nook , Where hedges run as crooked as the brook , Shielding their camp beneath some spreading oak ...
... trees ; The wild wood music from the lonely dell , Where merry Gypseys o'er their raptures dwell , • Haunting each common's wild and onely nook , Where hedges run as crooked as the brook , Shielding their camp beneath some spreading oak ...
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