Flowers and their associationsCharles Knight and Company, 22 Ludgate Street, 1840 - 409페이지 |
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... render her work pleasing to the general reader . She has taken indiscriminately , as the subject of her observations , the flower which , blooming on the parterre of a British garden , has been brought thither from a distant country ...
... render her work pleasing to the general reader . She has taken indiscriminately , as the subject of her observations , the flower which , blooming on the parterre of a British garden , has been brought thither from a distant country ...
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... of plants must be acquired before the study can be rendered pleasant and easy . As has been remarked by Mr. Loudon , person who knows only ten plants , will require 66 a a greater effort of memory to recollect two more , iv PREFACE .
... of plants must be acquired before the study can be rendered pleasant and easy . As has been remarked by Mr. Loudon , person who knows only ten plants , will require 66 a a greater effort of memory to recollect two more , iv PREFACE .
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... render a separate description of them desirable . They make a pretty addition to the garden in spring . It is the wild sweet violet , however , with its blue or white petals , which is the chief favourite of the tribe , on account of ...
... render a separate description of them desirable . They make a pretty addition to the garden in spring . It is the wild sweet violet , however , with its blue or white petals , which is the chief favourite of the tribe , on account of ...
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... rendered double , or otherwise altered , as having an artificial character , and in botanical language such flowers are often called monsters . Few of my readers will perhaps agree with the sentiments of the German botanist , Wildenow ...
... rendered double , or otherwise altered , as having an artificial character , and in botanical language such flowers are often called monsters . Few of my readers will perhaps agree with the sentiments of the German botanist , Wildenow ...
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... renders it to us a pleasing emblem - to our gay neighbours its name of thought presents a sad one . ' May they be far from thee , " is a motto affixed to the little painted group of pansies , mingled with marigolds ( called Soucis ...
... renders it to us a pleasing emblem - to our gay neighbours its name of thought presents a sad one . ' May they be far from thee , " is a motto affixed to the little painted group of pansies , mingled with marigolds ( called Soucis ...
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82 페이지 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
166 페이지 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimm'd with trees: see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
226 페이지 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
147 페이지 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
96 페이지 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new; Where from above the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers!
166 페이지 - To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora.
376 페이지 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
165 페이지 - And sung their thankful hymns: 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, — Whenas a thousand virgins on this day, Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
165 페이지 - In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind...
301 페이지 - The soul of a true Christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year, low and humble, on the ground; opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly in the midst of other flowers round about; all, in like manner, opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.