Flowers and Flower-gardensD'Rozario and Company, 1855 - 232 páginas |
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... living canvas , but even on our domestic China - ware , and our mahogany furniture , and our wall - papers and hangings and carpets , and on our richest apparel for holiday occasions and our simplest garments for daily wear . Even human ...
... living canvas , but even on our domestic China - ware , and our mahogany furniture , and our wall - papers and hangings and carpets , and on our richest apparel for holiday occasions and our simplest garments for daily wear . Even human ...
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... living ! Thou seemest now to all who miss and mourn thee but a sweet name - a fair vision - a precious memory ; -- but in reality thou art a more truly living thing than thou wert before or than aught thou hast left behind . Thou hast ...
... living ! Thou seemest now to all who miss and mourn thee but a sweet name - a fair vision - a precious memory ; -- but in reality thou art a more truly living thing than thou wert before or than aught thou hast left behind . Thou hast ...
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... living hues and his forms of grace over the surface of the earth for some especial and worthy purpose . When Voltaire was congratulated on the rapid growth of his plants , he observed that " they had nothing else to do . " Oh , yes ...
... living hues and his forms of grace over the surface of the earth for some especial and worthy purpose . When Voltaire was congratulated on the rapid growth of his plants , he observed that " they had nothing else to do . " Oh , yes ...
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... living jewelry of nature , is now rich in the choicest flowers of all other countries . Foreigners of many lands , They form one social shade , as if convened By magic summons of the Orphean lyre . Cowper . These little " foreigners of ...
... living jewelry of nature , is now rich in the choicest flowers of all other countries . Foreigners of many lands , They form one social shade , as if convened By magic summons of the Orphean lyre . Cowper . These little " foreigners of ...
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... peculiarly distinguishes the gardens of England , " says Repton , " is the beauty of English verdure : the grass of the mown lawn , -not the living son but the dead father . Would 12 ON FLOWERS AND FLOWER - GARDENS .
... peculiarly distinguishes the gardens of England , " says Repton , " is the beauty of English verdure : the grass of the mown lawn , -not the living son but the dead father . Would 12 ON FLOWERS AND FLOWER - GARDENS .
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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.