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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: RECOLLECTIONS OF A GIFTED WOMAN. From Leamington to Stratford-on-A von the distance is eight or nine miles, over a road that seemed to me most beautiful. Not that I can recall any memorable peculiarities; for the country, most of the way, is a succession of the gentlest swells and subsidences, affording wide and far glimpses of chanv paign scenery here and there, and sinking almost to a dead level as we draw near Stratford. Any landscape, / in New England, even the tamest, has a more striking outline, and, besides, would have its blue eyes open in those lakelets that we encounter almost from mile to mile at home, but of which the Old Country is utterly destitute; or it would smile in our faces through the medium of the wayside brooks that vanish under a low stone arch on one side of the road, and sparkle out again on the other. Neither of these pretty features is often to be found in an English scene. The charm of the latter consists in the rich verdure of the fields, in the stately wayside trees and carefully kept plantations of wood, and in the old and high cultivation that has humanized the very sods by mingling so much of man's toil and care among them. To an American there is a kind of sanctity even in an English turnip-field, when he thinks how long that small square of ground has been known and recognized as a possession, transmitted from father to son, trodden often by memorable feet, and utterly redeemed from savagery by old acquaintanceship with civilized eyes. I tame. The trees, for instance, whether in hedge-row, park, or what they call forest, hjejKithingwildabout 'them. They are never ragged; there is a certain decorous restraint in the freest outspread of their branches, though they spread wider than any self- nurturing tree; they are tall, vigorous, bulk...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458955616 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458955613 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $24.58 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 244 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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