This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ... the hearts of the fearful, but making work irksome and places of rest and shadow a double delight. Soon, however, we were well protected from the fierce glare of his hottest beams by the far-reaching shade of branching elm and hoary oak. The scene was one of intense interest. The endless variety and marvellous beauty ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ... the hearts of the fearful, but making work irksome and places of rest and shadow a double delight. Soon, however, we were well protected from the fierce glare of his hottest beams by the far-reaching shade of branching elm and hoary oak. The scene was one of intense interest. The endless variety and marvellous beauty of green foliage covering trees, all of which drank from the same soil and of the same air, and stood still in the same place in which they were born, were pleasant and refreshing to the sight, and also stimulating to minds ready to receive the lessons which the symbols of nature set forth. There was, moreover, that general buzz of summer life, that indescribable soothing noise--a sort of cheerful whispered conversation of the animated tribes that creep among the brushwood or flit from flower to flower. Brilliant butterflies chased one another, gaily-robed beetles raced along the earth, bright green grasshoppers leapt about the grass, the well-laden bees thrust themselves far into the heart of God's vast honey stores, and, crowning all, sweet strains of bird-music ever and anon fell on the sensitive ear and thrilled the susceptible heart. But strange truth it is that, when the mind is charged with some solemn and weighty purpose, or oppressed with heavy care, Nature, in any of her many moods, ceases to speak her own language and convey her own messages, and seems only to take up, and echo, and illustrate, the thoughts and feelings of the onlooker. What all this quiet grandeur and surpassing beauty said to Arthur Causton I know not; but, having stayed with his father some days, I had been forced to accept the unwelcome conclusion that Arthur's behaviour to his parents was not all it should be; and so intent was I upon introducing the painful su...
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