Alpines and Bog-plantsEdward Arnold, 1908 - 288 หน้า |
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abundant Aethionema Alpine Alps Androsace Arolla Aster Aster alpinus Aubrietia auratum autumn Azalea bank beautiful blooms blossoms blue Bodhisatta bog-garden bog-plants brilliant bush Campanula charm clumps colour cool corner cousin crimson cultivation dainty damp delicate delightful dense Dent Blanche dull dwarf easy Eritrichium nanum feet flowers foliage frail garden Gentiana Gentiana asclepiadea Geum reptans glory glossy golden gorgeous graceful green grey grow growth habit hardy herbaceous hybrid inches Ingleborough Irises Japanese larger leaves less Lilies loveliness lovely magenta miffy moisture moraine mountain native never pale perhaps pink plant Potentilla pretty Primula purple race Ranunculus rare Rhododendron robust rock rock-garden rock-work rosy round Saxifraga scarlet Sedum seed seedlings Sempervivum Senecio Senecio Doronicum shade shrub slope snowy soft species spikes Spiraea splendid stems summer tall Thalictrum aquilegifolium thing thrive tiny tufts variety violet weed well-drained white flowers winter yellow
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หน้า 128 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
หน้า 115 - I would that with feet Unsandalled, unshod. Overbold, overfleet, I had swum not nor trod From Arcadia to Calydon northward, a blast of the envy of God.
หน้า 284 - Kemble and Thorpe, Morley, Earle and Skeat, and other famous names. He combats the view that the great teachers of the nineteenth century — under the domination of German influences — allowed their philological enthusiasms to obscure the importance of the study of literature in its bearing on life. In doing so he breaks a lance with the Committee which issued the Report on the Teaching of English in England, and he appends to his lecture a note in reply to a defence by a member of the Committee...
หน้า 284 - Mr. Lewis Palen has again assisted the author in rendering his remarkable experiences into English, and the reader will find it hard to lay the book down unfinished. The scope of the book is very wide, ranging from the head-waters of the Yenesei to the Sea of Okhotsk, over vast territories little known to Europeans but teeming with interest. The marvels of Nature are revealed in her most awe-inspiring moods, and many terrible tragedies of human life are described with relentless simplicity. In these...
หน้า 286 - Magic calls and recalls me, back to lands of sunlight and sugarcane, of cedar and gold." He is an absolute enthusiast, and rarely does the faintest note of criticism intrude. From the " nice brown Queensland girl " of Brisbane to his " Mona Lisa " at Chillagoe, all the people are splendid ; the soil is the richest in the world ; the tropical vegetation is unrivalled ; the mineral wealth is astounding ; the possibilities of development are unlimited ; the Government is wise, far-sighted and benevolent....
หน้า 235 - If she married your Giuseppe You and he will have to part — TESS. (to GIA.). If I have to do it I'll warrant she'll rue it — I'll teach her to marry the man of my heart ! TESS.