Flowers and Flower-gardensD'Rozario and Company, 1855 - 232 pagina's |
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... present day could have accomplished the enterprize better . The chronologic series of miniature Memoirs are unparalleled for their completeness . The style in whi they are done is truly excellent . Those who are familiar with the ...
... present day could have accomplished the enterprize better . The chronologic series of miniature Memoirs are unparalleled for their completeness . The style in whi they are done is truly excellent . Those who are familiar with the ...
Pagina 23
... present for a princess , and of all gifts it is the one least liable to be rejected even by the haughty . It might be worn on the fair brow or bosom of Queen Victoria with a nobler grace than the costliest or most elaborate production ...
... present for a princess , and of all gifts it is the one least liable to be rejected even by the haughty . It might be worn on the fair brow or bosom of Queen Victoria with a nobler grace than the costliest or most elaborate production ...
Pagina 25
... present navy of Great Britain has been constructed with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted , -D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature . G or park , run up a steep hill sometimes , ON FLOWERS AND FLOWER - GARDENS . 25.
... present navy of Great Britain has been constructed with the oaks which the genius of Evelyn planted , -D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature . G or park , run up a steep hill sometimes , ON FLOWERS AND FLOWER - GARDENS . 25.
Pagina 26
... present day . They were not amateur Florists . They prized highly their fruit trees and pastures and cool grottoes and umbrageous groves ; but they expended comparatively little time , skill or taste upon the flower - garden . Even ...
... present day . They were not amateur Florists . They prized highly their fruit trees and pastures and cool grottoes and umbrageous groves ; but they expended comparatively little time , skill or taste upon the flower - garden . Even ...
Pagina 31
... present laureate , though a truly inspired poet , and a genuine lover of Nature even in her remotest retreats , has the garden of his preference , " not quite beyond the busy world . " Not wholly in the busy world , nor quite Beyond it ...
... present laureate , though a truly inspired poet , and a genuine lover of Nature even in her remotest retreats , has the garden of his preference , " not quite beyond the busy world . " Not wholly in the busy world , nor quite Beyond it ...
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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.