 | 1831 - 780 pàgines
...flowers are quite blood red before they expand, but when full grown the corolla is of a flesh colour. Scarcely any painter's art can so happily imitate...does the roots of the plant. Dragons and venomous seq>ents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode of her vegetable resembler,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 810 pàgines
...which is also applicable to the plant now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. Tim plant is alwayn fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of...bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of this plant. Dragons and venomous scrpenU surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 786 pàgines
...puritv, which is also applicable to the plant now preparing to celebrate т nuptial«. This plant u always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst...the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water docs the rooU of this plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 788 pàgines
...which is also applicable to the plant now preparing to celebrate itt nuptials. This plant is alway» fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of...the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water docs the root* of this plant. Dragons and venomous serpent* surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 796 pàgines
...celebrate its nuptial*. Thii plant is always tixcdon some little turfy hillock in the midn of the swamp*, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water doc« the root« of thie plant. Dragons and venomous serpent« surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles... | |
 | M. A. Burnett - 1850 - 204 pàgines
...contrived a more apposite fable. The plant is always found on some little turfy hillock, in the midst of swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock...her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the cistus. Dragons and venemous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles the abode of her... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 442 pàgines
...as a virgin of most exquisite and unrivalled charms, but these charms remain in perfection only as long as she retains her virgin purity, which is also...bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of this plant ; dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the... | |
 | 1848 - 640 pàgines
...— a virgin of most exquisite beauty and unrivalled charms. 'The plant is always fixed in some turff hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself...which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the root of the plant. A> the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction,... | |
 | 1848 - 634 pàgines
...pools — a virgin of most exquisite beauty and unnvalle« charms. The plant is always filed in some turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained toa rock in the sea, which hnlhed her feet, as the fresh water does the root of the plant. As the distressed... | |
 | George Barrell Emerson - 1846 - 614 pàgines
...descriptions, the more applicable they seemed to the little plant before me ; so that, if these writers had it in view, they could scarcely have contrived...bathed her feet, as the fresh" water does the roots of this plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the... | |
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This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the plant. 
