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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBOURNE IBD

BLURB
10 / 2021
9781006362880
Inglés

Sinopsis

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.'

PVP
18,61