 | 1882 - 1096 str.
...the splendid phrases of their leiity language. What are these maples and beeches and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals? What are these pines and...firs and spruces but holy hymns, too solemn for the many-lined raiment of their gay, deciduous neighbors? " To be taught to think," says a distinguished... | |
 | 1884 - 692 str.
...the splendid phrases of their leafy language. What are these maples and beeches and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals? What are these pines and...many-hued raiment of their gay, deciduous neighbors? " To be taught to think," says a distinguished educator, " to be developed as a human being, this is... | |
 | John Bradley Peaslee - 1884 - 76 str.
...the splendid phrases of their leafy language. What are these maples and beeches and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals ? What are these pines and...many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors? OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: Extract from Letter. THE objects of the restoration of the forests are as multifarious... | |
 | 1889 - 454 str.
...one of those in whose honor they were planted. What are these maples and beeches and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals? What are these pines and...spruces but holy hymns, too solemn for the many-hued rai ment of their gay deciduous neighbors.'' — Holmes. Fair tree ! for thy delightful shade 'Tis... | |
 | Birdsey Grant Northrop - 1885 - 48 str.
...splendid phrases of their leafy language. " What are these maples and beeches and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals ? What are these pines and...many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors ? " West Virginia illustrates the influence of observing Arbor Day in schools. In the face of many... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1885 - 840 str.
...the splendid phrases of their leafy language. What are these maples and beeches and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals ? What are these pines and...many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors? OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: Extract from Letter. THE objects of the restoration of the forests are as multifarious... | |
 | Edmund B. Southwick - 1885 - 34 str.
...maples, beeches and birches but odes and idyles and madrigols ? What are the pines, firs and spruies but holy hymns too solemn for the many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors. ' ' Our knowledge of what is past in life's history is due to the trees and plants. Our word Bible... | |
 | Ohio. State Forestry Bureau - 1888 - 162 str.
...the splendid phrases of their leafy language. What are these maples and beeches and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals ? What are these pines and...many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors? OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: Extract from Letter. THE objects of the restoration of the forests are as multifarious... | |
 | Michigan State Horticultural Society - 1886 - 552 str.
...language. What are these Maples and Beeches and Birches, but odes and idyls and madrigals? What are those Pines and Firs, and Spruces but holy hymns, too solemn...many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors? It is enough to know that when wo plant a tree we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome... | |
 | Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station - 1887 - 700 str.
...splendid phrases of their leafy language. " What are these maples and beeches and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals? What are these pines and firs and spruces but holy rhymes, too solemn for the many-hued raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors? " As you drop the seed,... | |
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Nature finds rhymes for , them in the recurring measures of the seasons. Winter strips them of their ornaments and gives them, as it were, in prose translation, and summer reclothes them in all the splendid phrases of their leafy language. What are these... 
