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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... nature is one of the best cordials for sorrow , accept , dear madam , the nectar its flowers offer , which has proved so great a balm to Your devoted and affectionate Husband , HENRY PHILLIPS Bedford Square , Brighton . Dulau 26-28 ...
... nature is one of the best cordials for sorrow , accept , dear madam , the nectar its flowers offer , which has proved so great a balm to Your devoted and affectionate Husband , HENRY PHILLIPS Bedford Square , Brighton . Dulau 26-28 ...
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... Nature's works , by studying to render every common an interesting pleasure ground , and every hedge a pleasing plantation , by the information he has endeavoured to collect respecting the plants that flourish in them . The author has ...
... Nature's works , by studying to render every common an interesting pleasure ground , and every hedge a pleasing plantation , by the information he has endeavoured to collect respecting the plants that flourish in them . The author has ...
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... Nature's bounty to that nation , five hundred became travellers to behold the Pyramids . A temple after it's fall excites more eager curiosity than it did during its construction ; and many who will not cross their thresholds to look at ...
... Nature's bounty to that nation , five hundred became travellers to behold the Pyramids . A temple after it's fall excites more eager curiosity than it did during its construction ; and many who will not cross their thresholds to look at ...
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... Nature , whose vegetable charms become more endeared to us as our and reflection increase . A more delightful cabinet of natural history can scarcely be formed , than the shrubbery affords , even when unadorned by exotic beauties . It ...
... Nature , whose vegetable charms become more endeared to us as our and reflection increase . A more delightful cabinet of natural history can scarcely be formed , than the shrubbery affords , even when unadorned by exotic beauties . It ...
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... Nature to our eyes , and not as disre- garding the plants that are indigenous to our soil . We are aware that many an Englishman has sighed under the shade of the banana , for a sight of his native banks , where the prim- rose sparkles ...
... Nature to our eyes , and not as disre- garding the plants that are indigenous to our soil . We are aware that many an Englishman has sighed under the shade of the banana , for a sight of his native banks , where the prim- rose sparkles ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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.