Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with Observations on the Formation of Ornamental Plantations, and Picturesque Scenery, Volumen 1Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 333 páginas |
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... with all the imagery of poetry . From this have been copied the plantation , the park , and shrubbery , so justly the pride of the nation , and so properly the abode of it's beauty . The Greeks devoted their terrestrial 12 INTRODUCTION .
... with all the imagery of poetry . From this have been copied the plantation , the park , and shrubbery , so justly the pride of the nation , and so properly the abode of it's beauty . The Greeks devoted their terrestrial 12 INTRODUCTION .
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... Greeks devoted their terrestrial groves , as well as celestial gar- dens , to the gods ; but the Mahometans re- serve their flowery lawns and umbrageous bowers for scenes of future bliss to mortal believers . We , however , more prudent ...
... Greeks devoted their terrestrial groves , as well as celestial gar- dens , to the gods ; but the Mahometans re- serve their flowery lawns and umbrageous bowers for scenes of future bliss to mortal believers . We , however , more prudent ...
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... Greeks para- deisoi , which contained animals for the chase ; and the Romans had similar enclosures , ha- bitationes ferarum , or habitations for beasts , of the chase . It is generally supposed , that the park of Blenheim is the site ...
... Greeks para- deisoi , which contained animals for the chase ; and the Romans had similar enclosures , ha- bitationes ferarum , or habitations for beasts , of the chase . It is generally supposed , that the park of Blenheim is the site ...
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... Greeks called Axania , of anagw , to sharpen , from whence the Latin acacia . But by the system of Lin- næus we discover that it cannot be ranged in the same class or order as the true acacia . It is therefore commonly called the false ...
... Greeks called Axania , of anagw , to sharpen , from whence the Latin acacia . But by the system of Lin- næus we discover that it cannot be ranged in the same class or order as the true acacia . It is therefore commonly called the false ...
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... Greeks called this tree Koμapos , and the fruit Maxuλov ; the Latins named the tree arbutus ; but in Pliny's time , when Rome abounded in wine and oil , they called the fruit of this tree unedo , which was an abridgement of unum edo ...
... Greeks called this tree Koμapos , and the fruit Maxuλov ; the Latins named the tree arbutus ; but in Pliny's time , when Rome abounded in wine and oil , they called the fruit of this tree unedo , which was an abridgement of unum edo ...
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Página 101 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 260 - To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys...
Página 36 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view ! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody...
Página 123 - ... mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name: Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; They grieven sore in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the...
Página 236 - The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir, that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.
Página 286 - Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge, of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can...
Página 72 - 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.
Página 129 - But should he hide his face, the astonish'd sun, And all the extinguish'd stars, would, loosening, reel Wide from their spheres, and Chaos come again. And yet was every faltering tongue of man, Almighty Father ! silent in Thy praise, Thy works themselves would raise a general voice, Even in the depth of solitary woods By human foot untrod ; proclaim Thy power, And to the choir celestial Thee resound, The eternal Cause, Support, and End of all...
Página 271 - Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow. At evening a keen eastern breeze arose ; And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn...
Página 217 - No monstrous height, or breadth, or length appear; The whole at once is bold, and regular. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.