Leaf and TendrilHoughton, Mifflin, 1908 - Всего страниц: 288 |
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... song , its open beak pointing straight to the zenith . The taxidermist had not seen truly . The thrush sings with its beak but slightly elevated . Who has not seen a red squirrel or a gray squirrel running up and down the trunk of a ...
... song , its open beak pointing straight to the zenith . The taxidermist had not seen truly . The thrush sings with its beak but slightly elevated . Who has not seen a red squirrel or a gray squirrel running up and down the trunk of a ...
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... song with some striking peculiarity a strange defect , or a rare excellence . Now it is a shrike impaling his victim , or blue jays mocking and teasing a hawk and dropping quickly into the branches to avoid his angry blows , or a robin ...
... song with some striking peculiarity a strange defect , or a rare excellence . Now it is a shrike impaling his victim , or blue jays mocking and teasing a hawk and dropping quickly into the branches to avoid his angry blows , or a robin ...
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... song sparrow . " Do you mean to say you have seen or heard all these birds while sitting here on my porch ? " she inquired . " I really have , " I said . " I do not see them or hear them , " she replied , " and yet I want to very much ...
... song sparrow . " Do you mean to say you have seen or heard all these birds while sitting here on my porch ? " she inquired . " I really have , " I said . " I do not see them or hear them , " she replied , " and yet I want to very much ...
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... song sparrow. " Do you mean to say you have seen or heard all these birds while sitting here on my porch?" she inquired. "I really have," I said. " I do not see them or hear them," she replied, "and yet I want to very much." " No," said ...
... song sparrow. " Do you mean to say you have seen or heard all these birds while sitting here on my porch?" she inquired. "I really have," I said. " I do not see them or hear them," she replied, "and yet I want to very much." " No," said ...
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... song sparrow , the robin , the red - shouldered starling are here or soon will be . The crows have a more confident caw , the sap begins to start in the sugar maple , the tiny boom of the first bee is heard , the downy woodpecker begins ...
... song sparrow , the robin , the red - shouldered starling are here or soon will be . The crows have a more confident caw , the sap begins to start in the sugar maple , the tiny boom of the first bee is heard , the downy woodpecker begins ...
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Стр. 281 - But their way Lies through the perplexed paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger...
Стр. 222 - Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly the arms that have help'd me. Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences to look after what was to hold me. Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance,...
Стр. 222 - Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long slow strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care. \ All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
Стр. 213 - I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now...
Стр. 250 - Now understand me well — it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
Стр. 222 - I mount and mount. Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me, Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there, I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist, And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
Стр. 224 - His benediction (v. 20-23). 6. Pursuing this regular progression from the lower to the higher, from the simple to the complex, the text now gives us the work of the sixth " day," which supplies the land-population, air and water having been already supplied (pp.
Стр. 10 - When the mercury is at zero or lower, he notes how the passing trains hiss and simmer as if the rails or wheels were red-hot. He reads the subtile signs of the weather. The stars at night forecast the coming day to him; the clouds at evening and at morning are a sign. He knows there is the wet-weather diathesis and the dry-weather diathesis, or, as Goethe said, water affirmative and water negative, and he interprets the symptoms accordingly. He is keenly alive to all outward impressions. When he...
Стр. 263 - ... to be in direct and personal contact with the sources of your material life; to want no extras, no shields; to find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to...
Стр. 25 - You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush. The eye must have purpose and aim. No one ever yet found the walking fern who did not have the walking fern in his mind.