Flowers and Flower-gardensD'Rozario and Company, 1855 - 232 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... admiration . To a foreign visitor the whole country seems a garden - in the words of Shakespeare— “ a sea - walled garden . " In the year 1843 , on a temporary return to England after a long Indian exile , I travelled by railway for the ...
... admiration . To a foreign visitor the whole country seems a garden - in the words of Shakespeare— “ a sea - walled garden . " In the year 1843 , on a temporary return to England after a long Indian exile , I travelled by railway for the ...
Pagina 10
... admiration . As I fed my eyes on the loveliness of Nature , or turned to the miracles of Art and Science on every hand , I had always in my mind a secret reference to the effect which a visit to England must produce upon an intelligent ...
... admiration . As I fed my eyes on the loveliness of Nature , or turned to the miracles of Art and Science on every hand , I had always in my mind a secret reference to the effect which a visit to England must produce upon an intelligent ...
Pagina 14
... admiration of our still more beautiful England , Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride . It is impossible to put into any form of words the faintest representation of that delightful summer feeling which is excited in fine ...
... admiration of our still more beautiful England , Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride . It is impossible to put into any form of words the faintest representation of that delightful summer feeling which is excited in fine ...
Pagina 16
... admiration . The land seemed a perfect paradise . It was in the spring of the year . The blue vault of heaven - the clear atmosphere - the balmy vernal breeze - the quiet and picturesque cattle , browsing on luxuriant verdure , or ...
... admiration . The land seemed a perfect paradise . It was in the spring of the year . The blue vault of heaven - the clear atmosphere - the balmy vernal breeze - the quiet and picturesque cattle , browsing on luxuriant verdure , or ...
Pagina 23
... admiration , and a pleasing egotism , on the charms of his own beautiful and highly cultivated estate at Wooton in the county of Surrey . He tells us that the house is large and ancient and is " sweetly environed with delicious streams ...
... admiration , and a pleasing egotism , on the charms of his own beautiful and highly cultivated estate at Wooton in the county of Surrey . He tells us that the house is large and ancient and is " sweetly environed with delicious streams ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.