 | Charles Marshall - 1813 - 464 páginas
...roots, as they seldom bear till about twenty years of age. See pages 79, 108. SECTION XVIII. OF FLOWERS. flowers, the sole luxury which Nature knew, In Eden's...grew ; Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They sprung to cheer the seiise, and glad the heart. BAUBACLD. X LOWERS, as to their cultivation, are classed... | |
 | 1816 - 420 páginas
...be a passion implanted in our natures the most early of any, even before the fair sex had a being. Flowers, the sole luxury which Nature knew, In Eden's...grew— Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They sprung to cheer the sense and glad the heart. BARBAULD. Flowers have ever been considered as the pride... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 páginas
...be a passion implanted in our natures the most early of any, even before the fair sex had a being. Flowers, the sole luxury which Nature knew, In Eden's...— Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They sprung to cheer the sense, and glad the heart. BAKBAULD. I have ever considered flowers as the pride... | |
 | Anna Laetitia Barbauld - 1820 - 136 páginas
...beauty too. With flowers the Graces bind their yellow hair, And flowery wreaths consenting lovers wear. Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew. To loftier forms are rougher tasks assign'd ; The sheltering oak resists the stormy wind, The tougher... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 páginas
...idea of happiness is always associated with the Garden. Mrs. Barbauld beautifully observes, that — Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's...— Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They sprung to cheer the sense, and glad the heart. Thomson invites the flowery tribe to join in the general... | |
 | 1823 - 494 páginas
...nature, that they contribute, more than any other quality, to the beauty of the creation. Cowley snys, Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's...art» They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the human heart. It would lie tedious to enumerate the beauties of the component parts of flowers. The... | |
 | Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 páginas
...nature, that they contribute, more than any other quality, to the heauty of the creation. Cowley says, Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's...art, They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the human heart. It would he tedious to enumerate the heauties of the component parts of flowers. The microscope... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 354 páginas
...their perfume. .. . • " This soft family, to cares unknown, Were born for pleasure and delight alone. Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They spring to cheer the sense and glad the heart." Mrs. BARBAUU). i, ., ,. •- . .' Yet this swe«t emblem of love, like the human body, breeds a canker... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 434 páginas
...navies grows ; % But this soft family, to cares unknown, Were born for pleasure and delight alone : Gay without toil, and lovely without art, They spring to cheer the sense, and glad the heart. Nor blush, my fair, to own you copy these , Your best, your sweetest empire is — to please. ODE TO... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 472 páginas
...beauty too. With flowers the Graces bind their yellow hair, And flowery wreaths consenting lovers wear. Flowers, the sole luxury which nature knew, In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew. To loftier forms are rougher tasks assign 'd ; The sheltering oak resists the stormy wind, The tougher... | |
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The sheltering oak resists the stormy wind, The tougher yew repels invading foes, And the tall pine for future navies grows ; But this soft family, to cares unknown, Were born for pleasure and delight alone : Gay without toil, and lovely without art... 
