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" Winter, still lingering on the verge of Spring, Retires reluctant, and from time to time Looks back, while at his keen and chilling breath, Fair Flora sickens. "
The landscape gardening and landscape architecture of ... Humphry Repton - Page 332
by Humphry Repton - 1840 - 619 pages
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Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick: To ...

Ecology - 1762 - 466 pages
...wintci, but not the male. III. MONTH. Winter ftill ling'ring on the verge of fpring, Retires relu&ant, and from time to time Looks back, while at his keen and chilling breath Fair Flora fickens. March 2. ROOKS, 39.3. Corvus frugilegus, begin to build. Thermometer, 10. 4. THRUSH, 64.2....
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The County Magazine, Volume 1

Periodicals - 1788 - 404 pages
...Three-Pence. ON THE MONTH or MARC H. Waiter JKtt lingering on the verge of Spring, Retires reluflant, and from time to time' Looks back, 'while at his keen and chilling breath Fair Flora fickens. HE great operations of nature during this month, fecm to be, to dry up the fuperabundant moifture...
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Literary life and select works of Benjamin Stillingfleet [ed. by W. Coxe].

Benjamin Stillingfleet - Natural history - 1811 - 522 pages
...with snow. Wind during the latter half of the month between E. and N. •' •" >v . . • III. MONTH. Winter still ling'ring on the verge of Spring, Retires...at his keen and chilling breath Fair Flora sickens. . . March 2. ROOKS, 39. 3. Corvusfrugilegus begin to build. Thermometer, 10. *. THRUSH, 64. 2. Turdus...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 16

English literature - 1817 - 590 pages
...but exposed landscape; and in the Spring, when " Reviving nature seems again to breathe. As loosened from the cold embrace of death," on the south border...the months of March and April, when " Winter, still lingering on the verge of Spring, Retires reluctant, and from time to time Looks back, while at his...
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The calendar of nature: designed for the instruction and entertainment of ...

Thomas Gosden - 1822 - 80 pages
...repairs hedges, lops trees, and plants those kinds which love a wet soil, as poplars and willows. MARCH. Winter still ling'ring on the verge of Spring, Retires...his keen and chilling breath, Fair Flora sickens. THE great operations of Nature during this month, seem to be, to dry up the superabundant moisture...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian

1830 - 492 pages
...NATURE, FOR MARCH, 1839. BY MR. WILLIAM ROOERSON, Royal Observatory, Greenwich. " WINTER, still lingering on the verge of Spring, Retires reluctant; and from...his keen and chilling breath Fair Flora sickens." "SPRING has been celebrated in glowing terms by the poets of all ages ; but in the climate of Britain...
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The months of the year; or, Conversations on the calendar [signed J.R.].

J. R - 1824 - 350 pages
...us that he is triumphing over Winter; who, however, still contends for sovereign sway ; and, • ' Ling'ring on the verge of Spring, Retires reluctant,...his keen and chilling breath Fair Flora sickens.' But he is assuredly retreating ; and though his departure be slow, a few more weeks, and no trace of...
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The every-day book, or, The guide to the year

William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...warbling of mnsic.' " . No. 11. Now, Winter, dispossessed of storms, and weak from boisterous rage, ; ny scent which he had before experienced. What could it proceed from ?— not from the burnt cottage St. David, Archbishop, A. D¿ 544. Si. Swidbert, or Swibert, AD 713. St. ¿Ibitiiu, Bishop, AD 049....
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The Every Day Book, Or, A Guide to the Year: Describing the ..., Volume 1

William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...which he com, , • , i . » • Now, Winter, dispossessed of storm», and weak from boisterous rage, els where they kill ; But their strong nerves at last...still. Early or late, They stoop to fate, And must g I. cares their scent with the passing sweetness of music is well-known, and probably suggested the...
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The Every-day Book: Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports ...

William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...warbling of ZUJJC.' " " No. II. Now, Winter, dispossessed of storms. and weak from boisterous rage, - ; - Ling'ring on the verge of Spring, Retires reluctant,...at his keen and chilling breath Fair Flora sickens. Sí. David, Archbishop, AD 544. St. Swidbert, or Swibert, А. о. 713. St. AUi'mut, Bishop, AD 549....
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