Flowers and Flower-gardensD'Rozario and Company, 1855 - 232 páginas |
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... border ; and hence , if the cottager's mind is properly attended , the little cottage- garden may give him more real delight than belongs to the owner of a thousand acres . " In a smaller garden 66 we become acquainted , as it were ...
... border ; and hence , if the cottager's mind is properly attended , the little cottage- garden may give him more real delight than belongs to the owner of a thousand acres . " In a smaller garden 66 we become acquainted , as it were ...
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David Lester Richardson. * PARADISE . So on he fares , and to the border comes Of Eden , where delicious Paradise , Now nearer , crowns with her enclosure green , As with a rural mound , the champaign head Of a steep wilderness , whose ...
David Lester Richardson. * PARADISE . So on he fares , and to the border comes Of Eden , where delicious Paradise , Now nearer , crowns with her enclosure green , As with a rural mound , the champaign head Of a steep wilderness , whose ...
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... borders steals the silver lake ; A soft variety delights the soul , And harmony resulting crowns the whole . Congreve in his Letter in verse addressed to Lord Cobham asks him to Tell how his pleasing Stowe employs his time . It would ...
... borders steals the silver lake ; A soft variety delights the soul , And harmony resulting crowns the whole . Congreve in his Letter in verse addressed to Lord Cobham asks him to Tell how his pleasing Stowe employs his time . It would ...
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... borders . Honest Allan here runs a little into the extreme , as men are apt enough to do , when they try to get as far as possible from the side advocated by an opposite party . I shall now exhibit two paintings of bowers . I 96 ON ...
... borders . Honest Allan here runs a little into the extreme , as men are apt enough to do , when they try to get as far as possible from the side advocated by an opposite party . I shall now exhibit two paintings of bowers . I 96 ON ...
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... borders of Wales and looked from among swelling hills down a long green valley , through which the Deva wound its wizard stream , my imagination turned all into a perfect Arcadia . One can readily imagine what a gay it's low life ...
... borders of Wales and looked from among swelling hills down a long green valley , through which the Deva wound its wizard stream , my imagination turned all into a perfect Arcadia . One can readily imagine what a gay it's low life ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration Alcinous alluded amongst beautiful birds bloom blossoms blue Botany bowers breath bright buds bulb Calcutta called charms CHIG cloth color cultivated daisy delight earth elegant England English English Garden fair favorite floral fragrance garden genius give grace grass green ground groves grow handsome Harebell heart Hesperides hills Hindu Horace Walpole Hyacinth Illustrations inches India lady landscape lawns leaf leaf mould Leasowes leaves Leigh Hunt light lily living Lord MICHI native Natural History nosegay o'er observes ornamental Ovid Paradise parterre petals pink Pitcairnia plant pleasure poem poet Pope pots pretty primrose purple rains rich root rose RSITY rural sacred says scene season seed shade Shakespeare Shenstone Shiva shrubs smell soil species Stapelia sweet taste thing thou tree tulip Twickenham UNIV ERSITY varieties violet vols white flower wild wind yellow
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Página 172 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, 'Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Página 173 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is...
Página 15 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Página 163 - It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Página 131 - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips and The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one...
Página 197 - To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers...
Página 196 - 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!
Página 168 - At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts...
Página 134 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Página 50 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let nature never be forgot.