Sylvan sketches; or, A companion to the park and the shrubbery, by the author of the Flora domestica1825 - 408 pàgines |
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Pàgina ix
... person to whom a description of common trees or shrubs would be likely to be of any use . One word only , as far as the writer re- members , has been introduced from the botanical vocabulary - the word pinnate ; and this occurs so often ...
... person to whom a description of common trees or shrubs would be likely to be of any use . One word only , as far as the writer re- members , has been introduced from the botanical vocabulary - the word pinnate ; and this occurs so often ...
Pàgina xv
... persons have embraced the solace of shady groves , " says Evelyn ; " and all devout persons have found how naturally they dispose our spirits to religious contemplation . " The animal , or the mineral , can no more compare with the ...
... persons have embraced the solace of shady groves , " says Evelyn ; " and all devout persons have found how naturally they dispose our spirits to religious contemplation . " The animal , or the mineral , can no more compare with the ...
Pàgina xxxvii
... persons can scarcely embrace the trunk . What a magnificent tree is the Banyan , or In- dian Fig tree , or more properly we should say , forest ! A tree of this kind has been described as 370 feet in diameter , the circumference of its ...
... persons can scarcely embrace the trunk . What a magnificent tree is the Banyan , or In- dian Fig tree , or more properly we should say , forest ! A tree of this kind has been described as 370 feet in diameter , the circumference of its ...
Pàgina 22
... persons in China give the preference to our En- glish herbs for the same purpose ; —such is the disposition of mankind to prefer those things least easy of attainment . Medicines have been prepared from the leaves , the bark , the seeds ...
... persons in China give the preference to our En- glish herbs for the same purpose ; —such is the disposition of mankind to prefer those things least easy of attainment . Medicines have been prepared from the leaves , the bark , the seeds ...
Pàgina 24
... persons have told strange stories of the curious figures to be found in Ash - wood . It has been said , that in the ... person , at the same minute , to see in the same object a camel , a weasel , and a whale . Ash - trees do not usually ...
... persons have told strange stories of the curious figures to be found in Ash - wood . It has been said , that in the ... person , at the same minute , to see in the same object a camel , a weasel , and a whale . Ash - trees do not usually ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 70 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Pàgina 70 - That landscape; and of pure, now purer air Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair.
Pàgina 149 - Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects
Pàgina 150 - Come, my Corinna, come ! and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green, and trimmed with trees ; see how Devotion gives each house a bough, Or branch; each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white thorn neatly interwove ; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Pàgina 71 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it ; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent...
Pàgina 71 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Pàgina 404 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Pàgina xxxiii - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More airy, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes...
Pàgina xxxvi - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High overarched, and echoing walks between...
Pàgina 79 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend. Lay me reclin'd Beneath the spreading tamarind that shakes, Fann'd by the breeze, its fever-cooling fruit.