The Flowers of the Year, Partes 1-2Religious Tract Society, 1847 - 192 páginas |
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abundant ancient anemone arum auricula autumn beautiful berries birds bloom blossoms blue botanists branches bright called clusters colour coloured blossoms common corn-fields cottage cranesbill crocus cultivated cyclamen daisy dark dumb cane early eaten England fields flavour flower grows foliage found wild fragrant France French fruits fuchsia garden genus grass green leaves ground grows wild guelder rose handsome hardy heath hedges herb hyacinth Italy juice kind known land Lapland leaf lilac lily Linnæus lovely mallow marigold meadow medicine mezereon month mountains narcissus native odour old writers ornamental pale petals pink plant poisonous poppy pretty profusion purple render root rose saxifrage says scarlet scent season seeds shrub Siberia snow soil sometimes southern Europe species spots spring stem summer sweet Syria termed tint tree tribe variety vegetation Venus's looking-glass violet viper's bugloss wallflower white flowers wild flower winds winter woods yellow flowers
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Página 133 - To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Página 100 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Página 28 - Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; And caused the dayspring to know his place; That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, That the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Página 7 - While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Página 104 - Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish.
Página 158 - Thus death reigns in all the portions of our time. The autumn with its fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves.
Página 137 - Thou shalt not eat of it : cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life ; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread...
Página 45 - O'er slippery steeps, or, trembling, treads the verge Of yawning gulfs, o'er which the headlong plunge Is to eternity, looks shuddering up, And marks ye in your placid loveliness — Fearless, yet frail — and, clasping his chill hands, Blesses your pencilled beauty.
Página 10 - Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Página 128 - The sitting down, when school was o'er, Upon the threshold of the door, Picking from mallows, sport to please, Each crumpled seed he...