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... Hill . Here , espe- cially on a hot summer day , the unlettered visitor can learn what Virgil meant when he described Tityrus as Patulæ recubans sub tegmine fagi ; and he must be dull indeed to the charms of English sylvan scenery if he ...
... Hill . Here , espe- cially on a hot summer day , the unlettered visitor can learn what Virgil meant when he described Tityrus as Patulæ recubans sub tegmine fagi ; and he must be dull indeed to the charms of English sylvan scenery if he ...
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... hills as people who love their necks as well as I do may venture to climb , and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more dangerous . Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches and other very reverend ...
... hills as people who love their necks as well as I do may venture to climb , and crags that give the eye as much pleasure as if they were more dangerous . Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches and other very reverend ...
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... hills , as Gray observes , do not pierce the sky ; but the Burnham beeches will bear comparison with the most famous of the lords of the English forest . When Gray wrote , they were already hoary with age ; and since that time a century ...
... hills , as Gray observes , do not pierce the sky ; but the Burnham beeches will bear comparison with the most famous of the lords of the English forest . When Gray wrote , they were already hoary with age ; and since that time a century ...
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... hills , as Gray observes , do not pierce the sky ; but the Burnham beeches will bear comparison with the most famous of the lords of the English forest . When Gray wrote , they were already hoary with age ; and since that time a century ...
... hills , as Gray observes , do not pierce the sky ; but the Burnham beeches will bear comparison with the most famous of the lords of the English forest . When Gray wrote , they were already hoary with age ; and since that time a century ...
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... hills and coasts , thus writes of it only a year or two before his death : ' The village is very small and scattery , all mixed up with trees , and lying among sweet airy falls and swells of ground , which finally rise up behind into ...
... hills and coasts , thus writes of it only a year or two before his death : ' The village is very small and scattery , all mixed up with trees , and lying among sweet airy falls and swells of ground , which finally rise up behind into ...
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