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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBOURNE IBD

BLURB
10 / 2021
9781006362880
Inglês

Sinopse

The Natural History of Selbourne is a nature history book that describes the bird life of England and the Selbourne area specifically. Here is a passage from the book: See, Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round The varied valley, and the mountain ground, Wildly majestic ! What is all the pride, Of flats, with loads of ornaments supplied ?-- Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense, Compared with Nature?s rude magnificenee. Arise, my stranger, to these wild scenes haste, The unfinish?d farm awaits your forming taste: Plan the pavilion, airy, light, and true, Through the high arch call in the length?ning view, Expand the forest sloping up the hill, Swell to a lake the scant, penurious rill, Extend the vista, raise the castle mound In antique taste, with turrets ivy-crown?d: O?er the gay lawn the flow?ry shrub dispread, Or with the blending garden mix the mead, Bid China?s pale, fantastic fence delight, Or with the mimic statue trap the sight.'