Sylvan sketches; or, A companion to the park and the shrubbery, by the author of the Flora domestica1825 - 408 páginas |
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... price of her celestial scent : the gourd And thirsty cucumber , when they perceive Th ' approaching olive , with resentment fly Her fatty fibres , and with tendrils creep Diverse , detesting contact ; whilst the fig * Voyage d ...
... price of her celestial scent : the gourd And thirsty cucumber , when they perceive Th ' approaching olive , with resentment fly Her fatty fibres , and with tendrils creep Diverse , detesting contact ; whilst the fig * Voyage d ...
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... price ; The second bore the buckler of his knight ; The third of cornel wood , a spear upright , Headed with piercing steel , and polished bright . " DRYDEN'S Flower and Leaf . A writer of our own time represents 66 Faunus fast CORNEL ...
... price ; The second bore the buckler of his knight ; The third of cornel wood , a spear upright , Headed with piercing steel , and polished bright . " DRYDEN'S Flower and Leaf . A writer of our own time represents 66 Faunus fast CORNEL ...
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... prices by men of rank and power . Thunberg speaks of the Maples of Japan as extremely beautiful . " For beauty , " says he , " nothing can exceed the Maples indigenous of this country . " And Dr. Clarke , travelling in a climate totally ...
... prices by men of rank and power . Thunberg speaks of the Maples of Japan as extremely beautiful . " For beauty , " says he , " nothing can exceed the Maples indigenous of this country . " And Dr. Clarke , travelling in a climate totally ...
Página 325
... price , and sells it again , with a profit of a hundred , or a hundred and fifty per cent . The Greeks who cultivate mastick pay but half of the capitation , or poll - tax , and wear a white linen band round their turbans , like the ...
... price , and sells it again , with a profit of a hundred , or a hundred and fifty per cent . The Greeks who cultivate mastick pay but half of the capitation , or poll - tax , and wear a white linen band round their turbans , like the ...
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... price in the markets of Spain and Italy , where they are sold to dress Spanish skins , for which they are accounted excellent . The Virginian Sumach , Rhus typhinum , is a native North America : the young branches are covered with a ...
... price in the markets of Spain and Italy , where they are sold to dress Spanish skins , for which they are accounted excellent . The Virginian Sumach , Rhus typhinum , is a native North America : the young branches are covered with a ...
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Página 70 - 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 champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Página 70 - That landscape; and of pure, now purer air Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair.
Página 149 - Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects
Página 150 - Come, my Corinna, come ! and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green, and trimmed 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.
Página 71 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it ; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent...
Página 71 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Página 404 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Página xxxiii - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More airy, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes...
Página xxxvi - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High overarched, and echoing walks between...
Página 79 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend. Lay me reclin'd Beneath the spreading tamarind that shakes, Fann'd by the breeze, its fever-cooling fruit.