It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.

it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

'I shall soon be rested,' said Fanny; 'to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.'

Alexander Beetle I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name, And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same. I put him in a matchbox, and I…

For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.- I cannot paint What then I was.

Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.