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50. oldal
... circumference , and seventeen feet high , before the branches break out , which are of enormous bulk . There formerly stood in the churchyard of Kilmalie , in Lochaber , an Ash that was considered the largest and most remarkable tree in ...
... circumference , and seventeen feet high , before the branches break out , which are of enormous bulk . There formerly stood in the churchyard of Kilmalie , in Lochaber , an Ash that was considered the largest and most remarkable tree in ...
68. oldal
... circumference ; but it carried nearly this degree of thickness , with a clear stem , up to the height of about fifty feet , and it was judged to be about one hundred feet high . " [ Cedrus Libani . Nat . Ord . - Coniferæ 68 BIRCH .
... circumference ; but it carried nearly this degree of thickness , with a clear stem , up to the height of about fifty feet , and it was judged to be about one hundred feet high . " [ Cedrus Libani . Nat . Ord . - Coniferæ 68 BIRCH .
88. oldal
... circumference in the bole , and still thicker at the height of four feet from the ground , where it divides into five enormous boughs , each of the size of a large tree , and gracefully descend- ing to the ground ; the whole forming a ...
... circumference in the bole , and still thicker at the height of four feet from the ground , where it divides into five enormous boughs , each of the size of a large tree , and gracefully descend- ing to the ground ; the whole forming a ...
113. oldal
... tree at Bar- goly , in Galloway , which measured , in 1780 , six feet two inches in circumference . It had twenty feet of clear trunk , and was seventy feet high . [ Esculus . Nat . Ord . - Esculaceae ; HORNBEAM . 113.
... tree at Bar- goly , in Galloway , which measured , in 1780 , six feet two inches in circumference . It had twenty feet of clear trunk , and was seventy feet high . [ Esculus . Nat . Ord . - Esculaceae ; HORNBEAM . 113.
120. oldal
... circumference ; and the branches are so large as to require props , so that at a little distance it looks like an Indian banyan tree . The Horse - chestnut is propagated from the nut , of which a sufficient quantity should be gathered ...
... circumference ; and the branches are so large as to require props , so that at a little distance it looks like an Indian banyan tree . The Horse - chestnut is propagated from the nut , of which a sufficient quantity should be gathered ...
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4. oldal - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
199. oldal - In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!
6. oldal - God! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift dark whirlwind that uproots...
61. oldal - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
198. oldal - Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on. — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
4. oldal - Which, from the stilly twilight of the place, And from the gray old trunks that high in heaven Mingled their mossy boughs, and from the sound Of the invisible breath that swayed at once All their green tops, stole over him, and bowed His spirit with the thought of boundless power And inaccessible majesty. Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd, and under roofs That our frail hands have raised...
7. oldal - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
22. oldal - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
8. oldal - Try their thin wings and dance in the warm beam That waked them into life. Even the green trees Partake the deep contentment; as they bend To the soft winds, the sun from the blue sky Looks in and sheds a blessing on the scene.
227. oldal - For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?