Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed. Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. ... - Página 1901851Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
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...chaste and good, and let us read The living page, whose ev'ry character Delights and gives us wisdom. Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains...new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed. See, ere we pass Alcanor's threshold, to the curious eye A little monitor... | |
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...living page, whofe ev'ry chara&er Delights and gives us wifdom. Not a tree A plant, a leaf, a blofibm, but contains A folio volume. We may read and read And read again, and ftill find fomething new, Something to pleafe, and fomething to inftruct, E'en in the noifome weed.... | |
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...study merely of names, isi when entered upon with spirit, a most instructive and enticing pursuit : Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom , but contains'...new ; Something to please, and something to instruct E'«a in the noisome weed. * Park's Travels, 243. C 4 It would be no inconsiderable improvement to... | |
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...page, where ev'ry charafter Delights, and gives us wifdom. Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a bloffom, but contains A folio volume. — We may read and read, And read again, and ftill find fomething new, Something to pleafe, and fomething to inftruft, E'en in the noifome weed.... | |
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| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 páginas
...chaste and good, and let us read The living page, whose ev'ry character Delights, and gives us wisdom. Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may'read and read And read again, and still find something new, Something to please and something to... | |
| James Hurdis - 1810 - 358 páginas
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...conduct to them; man would then realize the language of the poet, in a most exalted degree, and find " Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume; he would read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something... | |
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