The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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Page 10
... rise . The dew dries very soon on wheat , Guido dear , because wheat is so dry ; first the sunrise makes the tips of the wheat ever so faintly rosy , then it grows yellow , then as the heat increases it becomes white at noon , and ...
... rise . The dew dries very soon on wheat , Guido dear , because wheat is so dry ; first the sunrise makes the tips of the wheat ever so faintly rosy , then it grows yellow , then as the heat increases it becomes white at noon , and ...
Page 42
... rise . No day , no hour of summer , no step but brings new mazes - there is no word to express design without plan , and these designs of flower and leaf and colours of the sun cannot be reduced to set order . The eye is for ever drawn ...
... rise . No day , no hour of summer , no step but brings new mazes - there is no word to express design without plan , and these designs of flower and leaf and colours of the sun cannot be reduced to set order . The eye is for ever drawn ...
Page 48
... rise soaring from the same oak to fetch down love with a song from heaven to his mate on the nest beneath . No change , no new thing ; if I found a fresh wildflower in a fresh place , still it wove at once into the old garland . In vain ...
... rise soaring from the same oak to fetch down love with a song from heaven to his mate on the nest beneath . No change , no new thing ; if I found a fresh wildflower in a fresh place , still it wove at once into the old garland . In vain ...
Page 50
... the mastheads of the fishing boats on the beach just rise above the rails of the cliff , tipped with fluttering pennants , or fish - shaped vanes changing to the wind . They have a pulley at the end of a curved 50 THE OPEN AIR .
... the mastheads of the fishing boats on the beach just rise above the rails of the cliff , tipped with fluttering pennants , or fish - shaped vanes changing to the wind . They have a pulley at the end of a curved 50 THE OPEN AIR .
Page 57
... rise and fall slowly , and they work in correspondence . No infernal fidget and fuss . Wonder how long it would take me to pitch a pebble so as to lodge on the top of that large brown pebble there ? I try , once now and then . Far out ...
... rise and fall slowly , and they work in correspondence . No infernal fidget and fuss . Wonder how long it would take me to pitch a pebble so as to lodge on the top of that large brown pebble there ? I try , once now and then . Far out ...
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A. B. GROSART autumn beach beautiful birds black-headed bunting blue boats boughs bright Brighton brown bushes butterfly cloth extra cloth limp colour copse corn creature Crown 8vo dark Demy 8vo earth edge Edited elms face Fcap fern field fish flowers gone grass green Guido happy heat hedge illustrated boards jogger King's Road labour ladies leaves light little Guido London look meadow morning nature nest never Novel passed pebbles pheasant PICCADILLY NOVELS pleasant plough Post 8vo rain red deer RICHARD JEFFERIES river road roof rooks round rushing seemed shadow shot side sparrows spot stalks starlings Stories stream summer sunlight sunshine swallows sward Thames thick things thought thousand tint trees Vols W. S. GILBERT walk wave wheat wild wind wings winter wood yellow yellowhammer