Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed. Wanderings and excursions in North Wales - Pàgina 81per Thomas Roscoe - 1837 - 261 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| James Hurdis - 1819 - 168 pàgines
...chaste and good, and let us read The living page, whose ev'ry character Delights and gives us wisdom. Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains...read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed. See, ere we pass Alcanor's... | |
| James Hurdis - 1792 - 424 pàgines
...living page, whofe ev'ry chara&er Delights and gives us wifdom. Not a tree A plant, a leaf, a blofibm, but contains A folio volume. We may read and read And read again, and ftill find fomething new, Something to pleafe, and fomething to inftruct, E'en in the noifome weed.... | |
| 1797 - 310 pàgines
...WILLIAM CURTIS, Author of the FLORA LONDINENSIS. VOL. XI. " Not a tree, " A plant, a leaf, a bloflbm, but contains " A folio volume. We may read and read, " And read again, and ftill find fomething new, " Something to pleafe, and fomething to inftruft." THE VILLAGE CURATR. LONDON:... | |
| Charles Snart - 1801 - 150 pàgines
...presented to our view arrayed in, the most captivating drefs. Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blofsom, but contains A folio volume. We may read and read And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, & something to instruct, E'en in the humble weed. * It is a general observation... | |
| William Bingley - 1803 - 524 pàgines
...study merely of names, isi when entered upon with spirit, a most instructive and enticing pursuit : Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom , but contains'...read, And read again, and still find something new ; Something to please, and something to instruct E'«a in the noisome weed. * Park's Travels, 243.... | |
| Ann Gibbs - 1803 - 148 pàgines
...page, where ev'ry charafter Delights, and gives us wifdom. Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a bloffom, but contains A folio volume. — We may read and read, And read again, and ftill find fomething new, Something to pleafe, and fomething to inftruft, E'en in the noifome weed.... | |
| William Enfield - 1805 - 456 pàgines
...page, whofe ev'ry charafter Delights, and gives us wi/dom. Not a tree>. A plant, a leaf, a bloflbm, but contains. A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and ftill fmd fomething new, Something to pleafe, and fcmething to inftruft,, E'en in the noifome weed.... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pàgines
...chaste and good, and let us read The living page, whose ev'ry character Delights, and gives us wisdom. Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may'read and read And read again, and still find something new, Something to please and something to... | |
| James Hurdis - 1810 - 358 pàgines
...and let us read The living page, whose ev'ry character Delights and gives us wisdom. Not a tree, *l/ A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume....read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, VOL. I. D E'en in the noisome weed. See, ere we pass... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1840 - 586 pàgines
...conduct to them; man would then realize the language of the poet, in a most exalted degree, and find " Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume; he would read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something... | |
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