...the common, natural beauties around her daily path. Why should she resemble the man of whom the poet says — "A primrose, by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And nothing more," when nearly everything she sees might be the means of calling up beautiful...

..."tree like a spirit of the air," — and nearly all his epithets are of this nature. Of Peter Bell he says : — "A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." Now to a man like Peter Bell a primrose would be a common weed. One...

...enough, and who are as destitute of emotional feeling while they do so as the man of whom the poet says : — " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." The general feeling, however, is as we have stated, and hence the rash...

...that naturalhistory knowledge, as such, can increase our sense of the beautiful in natural objects. I do not suppose that the dead soul of Peter Bell,...that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a mouopetalous corolla and central placenta tion. But I advocate natural-history knowledge from this...

...river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. " But that dead soul would not have been a whit roused from its apathy by the information...a monopetalous corolla and central placentation." Very little of such a mass of definitions turns into real knowledge, because such are not the tools...

...that naturalhistory knowledge, as such, can increase our sense of the beautiful in natural objects. I do not suppose that the dead soul of Peter Bell,...poet of nature says,—- A primrose by the river's trim, A yellow primrose was to him, — And it was nothing more, — would have been a whit roused...

...As Huxley has remarked, it would not have roused Peter a whit from his apathy to have informed him " that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and a central placentation." Whilst if the botanist continued his encyclopaedic chant, he might have afforded...

...of outline. In taking leave of the subject of tops it may be remarked that the familiar lines— " A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more "— would be applicable, in the sense which they are intended to have, to anyone who were to view this toy as...

...As Huxley has remarked, it would not have roused Peter a whit from his apathy had he been informed that " the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and a central placentation." Whilst if the botanist continued his encyclopaedic chant, he might afford...

...that naturalhistory knowledge, as such, can increase our sense of the beautiful in natural objects. I do not suppose that the dead soul of Peter Bell, of whom the great poet of nature Bays,— A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him,— And it was nothing more,—...