The Field, the Garden, and the Woodland: Or, Interesting Facts Respecting Flowers and Plants in General, Designed for the YoungC. Cox, 1847 - 194 páginas |
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The Field, the Garden, and the Woodland, Or, Interesting Facts Respecting ... Anne Pratt Visualização completa - 1838 |
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adorn afford Africa appearance Areca Catechu Asafoetida baobab bark beautiful berries birds blooming blossoms botanist boughs branches bright called CARRION FLOWER climates clusters colour common contained countries covered cultivated delicate dried Druids earth England fibres flavour flourish flowers foliage formed fragrance frequent fruit furze garden glasswort grass green ground growing wild GUERNSEY LILY horsetail India insects island juice kind land leaf leaves Linnæus meadow misletoe moisture moss mountain ash natives nature neighbourhood odour opium Orkney Islands ornamental parasitic parasitic plant peculiar perfume places plant pleasant poisonous poppy procured produce profusion purple quantity remarkable renders resembling roots rose samphire scarcely scenes scent season seed-vessel seeds shores shrub singular situations soil sometimes species spot spring stem streams substance sugar summer surface sweet sweet woodruff teasel tree TREE FERNS tropical vegetable violet walk white poppy winds winter woods yellow yield
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Página 96 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Página 37 - Of libertine Excess. The Sofa suits The gouty limb, 'tis true ; but gouty limb, Though on a Sofa, may I never feel : For I have...
Página 105 - The friends, who in our sunshine live, When winter comes, are flown; And he who has but tears to give, Must weep those tears alone. But Thou wilt heal that broken heart, Which, like the plants that throw Their fragrance from the wounded part, Breathes sweetness out of woe.
Página 30 - I'll tell you, scholar, when I sat last on this primrose bank, and looked down these meadows, I thought of them as Charles the Emperor did of the city of Florence, "that they were too pleasant to be looked on but only on holidays.
Página 108 - In some people the external thin skin, or cuticle, peels off in a few days, as is the case when a person has scalded or burnt any part of his body. Nay, the nature of some persons will not even allow them to approach the place where the tree grows, or to expose themselves to the wind, when it carries the effluvia or exhalations of this tree with it, without letting them feel the inconvenience of the swelling, which I have just now described.
Página 99 - Bagh, or thousand gardens, in the vicinity of Shiraz ; and we were surprised and delighted to find that we were to enjoy this meal on a stack of roses. On this a carpet was laid, and we sat cross-legged like the natives. The stack, which was as large as a common one of hay in England, had been formed without much trouble from the heaps or cocks of roseleaves, collected before they were sent into the city to be distilled.
Página 27 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Página 61 - Druidism prevailed the houses were decked with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and •cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes.
Página 108 - An incision being made into the tree, a whitish yellow juice, which has a nauseous smell, comes out between the bark and the wood. This tree is not known for its good qualities, but greatly so for the effect of its poison, which though it is noxious to some people, yet does not in the least affect others.
Página 61 - the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty...