Excerpt from The Rural Poetry of the English Language: Illustrating the Seasons and Months of the Year, Their Changes, Employments, Lessons, and Pleasures, Topically Paragraphed The subject proposed. Inscribed to the Countess of Hert ford. The season is described as it affects the various parts of nature, ascending from the lower to the higher with digressions arising from the subject. Its in uence on inanimate matter, on vegetables, on brute animals, and lastly on man; concluding with a dissuasive from the Wild and irregular passion of love, opposed to that of a pure and happy kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."