Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with Observations on the Formation of Ornamental Plantations, and Picturesque Scenery, Volume 2Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 333 páginas |
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Página 76
... crown of a pine apple , but of a beautiful yellow green , which harmonises as agreeably with the garnet set spray , as the grey green contrasts with the golden fruit of the ananas . It is no small recommendation to the mezereon , that ...
... crown of a pine apple , but of a beautiful yellow green , which harmonises as agreeably with the garnet set spray , as the grey green contrasts with the golden fruit of the ananas . It is no small recommendation to the mezereon , that ...
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... crowns of myrtle were anciently called Nau- cratites , from the following miraculous story which is related of Herostratus , a Naucratian merchant , who was overtaken by a terrible tempest at sea , that threatened to destroy his ship ...
... crowns of myrtle were anciently called Nau- cratites , from the following miraculous story which is related of Herostratus , a Naucratian merchant , who was overtaken by a terrible tempest at sea , that threatened to destroy his ship ...
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... crowns ; and on their safe arrival at Naucrates , Herostratus presented the statue and the myrtles to the temple that was conse- crated to Venus ; on which occasion he gave a feast , where he distributed the crowns of myrtle to the ...
... crowns ; and on their safe arrival at Naucrates , Herostratus presented the statue and the myrtles to the temple that was conse- crated to Venus ; on which occasion he gave a feast , where he distributed the crowns of myrtle to the ...
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... crown when he entered the capital in ovation , after having conquered the Sabines without shedding blood . These chaplets were dedicated to Venus Victrix . Papyrius Masso , who triumphed over the Corsicans , was al- lowed for ever after ...
... crown when he entered the capital in ovation , after having conquered the Sabines without shedding blood . These chaplets were dedicated to Venus Victrix . Papyrius Masso , who triumphed over the Corsicans , was al- lowed for ever after ...
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... crown of the flower , and which nature seems to have intended as a security for the nectar , were made to represent the lashes of the whip tinged with blood ; the fine encircling stamens the crown of thorns ; the column in the centre H ...
... crown of the flower , and which nature seems to have intended as a security for the nectar , were made to represent the lashes of the whip tinged with blood ; the fine encircling stamens the crown of thorns ; the column in the centre H ...
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Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically ..., Volume 2 Henry Phillips Visualização completa - 1823 |
Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically ..., Volume 2 Henry Phillips Visualização completa - 1823 |
Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically ..., Volume 2 Henry Phillips Visualização completa - 1823 |
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Página 217 - One Spirit — his, Who wore the platted thorns with bleeding brows. Rules universal nature. Not a flower But shows some touch in freckle, streak, or stain, Of his unrivalled pencil.
Página 286 - Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Página 173 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Página 174 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Página 148 - Rose, thou art the sweetest flower That ever drank the amber shower ; Rose, thou art the fondest child Of dimpled Spring, the wood-nymph wild. Even .the Gods, who walk the sky, Are amorous of thy scented sigh.
Página 43 - And of an humbler growth, the other tall, And throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring cypress or more sable yew Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave ; The lilac, various in array, now white, Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set With purple spikes pyramidal, as if Studious of ornament, yet unresolved Which hue she most approved, she chose them all...
Página 266 - In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand: With looks unmov'd, he hopes the scaly breed, And eyes the dancing cork, and bending reed.
Página 287 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Página 262 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 206 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ! Not, chaos-like, together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.