The Flowering Plants of Great Britain, Volume 1Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1855 |
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Pagina 8
... pretty . They open in April or May , and the name of the plant has a reference to the Paschal or Easter season . Several flowers , both in France and England , are called Easter flowers : thus Pâquerette is one of the French names of ...
... pretty . They open in April or May , and the name of the plant has a reference to the Paschal or Easter season . Several flowers , both in France and England , are called Easter flowers : thus Pâquerette is one of the French names of ...
Pagina 8
... pretty bin , - My lady sweet , arise ! " The French call the buttercup Bouton d'or , and it is the Ranonculo of the Italians . The Germans term it Die ranunkel . Ben Jonson calls these flowers King - cups . 10. R. ácris ( Meadow ...
... pretty bin , - My lady sweet , arise ! " The French call the buttercup Bouton d'or , and it is the Ranonculo of the Italians . The Germans term it Die ranunkel . Ben Jonson calls these flowers King - cups . 10. R. ácris ( Meadow ...
Pagina 8
... pretty globe flower is paler in colour than the wild species of ranun- culus , and its petals are not glossy like theirs , while the numerous stamens often spread around the centre so as almost to hide the petals . Miller tells us that ...
... pretty globe flower is paler in colour than the wild species of ranun- culus , and its petals are not glossy like theirs , while the numerous stamens often spread around the centre so as almost to hide the petals . Miller tells us that ...
Pagina 13
... pretty . The plant was formerly used medicinally , but it is by no means a safe medicine , and Linnæus says that children have died from taking it . Michael Drayton introduces this flower in one of his 66 poems : Make her a goodly ...
... pretty . The plant was formerly used medicinally , but it is by no means a safe medicine , and Linnæus says that children have died from taking it . Michael Drayton introduces this flower in one of his 66 poems : Make her a goodly ...
Pagina 33
... pretty ornaments of rockwork . Some of the most elegant of the genus grow wild in North America . 2. C. sólida ( Solid - rooted Corydalis ) .— Stem erect , and without branches or tendrils ; a scale beneath the lower leaf . Leaves 3-4 ...
... pretty ornaments of rockwork . Some of the most elegant of the genus grow wild in North America . 2. C. sólida ( Solid - rooted Corydalis ) .— Stem erect , and without branches or tendrils ; a scale beneath the lower leaf . Leaves 3-4 ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 8 - Hark, hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings. And Phoebus gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chalic'd flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes : With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet arise ; Arise, arise ! Clo.
Pagina 124 - Hence these shades Are still the abodes of gladness ; the thick roof Of green and stirring branches is alive And musical with birds, that sing and sport In wantonness of spirit; while below The squirrel, with raised paws and form erect, Chirps merrily.
Pagina 234 - ... and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns, where they broke down branches from the trees and adorned them with nosegays and crowns of flowers. This done, they returned...
Pagina 197 - Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Pagina 181 - Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight : With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.
Pagina 110 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect holds a rank Important in the plan of Him, who fram'd This scale of beings ; holds a rank, which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which nature's self would rue.
Pagina 197 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, GOD! Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost!
Pagina 150 - Lotophagi) which whoso tastes, Insatiate riots in the sweet repasts, Nor other home nor other care intends, But quits his house, his country, and his friends: The three we sent, from off th...
Pagina 197 - Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds ! Ye signs and wonders of the elements ! Utter forth God, and fill the hills with praise ! Thou, too, hoar Mount ! with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene, Into the depth of clouds that veil thy breast, — Thou too again, stupendous Mountain ! thou...
Pagina 196 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God!