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Love's Meinie, by John Ruskin
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Title: Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
Author: John Ruskin
Release Date: April 18, 2007 [EBook #21138]
Language: English
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LOVE'S MEINIE.
THREE LECTURES ON GREEK AND ENGLISH BIRDS.
By
JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D., D.C.L.
HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD; AND HONORARY FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD
THIRD EDITION
GEORGE ALLEN, SUNNYSIDE, ORPINGTON AND 156, CHARING CROSS ROAD, LONDON
1897
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CONTENTS.
PAGE
PREFACE v
LECTURE I. THE ROBIN 1
LECTURE II. THE SWALLOW 25
LECTURE III. THE DABCHICKS 52
APPENDIX 107
PREFACE.
BRANTWOOD, 9th June, 1881.
Quarter past five, morning.
The birds chirping feebly,--mostly chaffinches answering each other, the rest discomposed, I fancy, by the June snow;[1] the lake neither smooth nor rippled, but like a surface of perfectly bright glass, ill cast; the lines of wave few and irregular, like flaws in the planes of a fine crystal.
[1] The summits of the Old Man