Sylvan sketches; or, A companion to the park and the shrubbery, by the author of the Flora domestica1825 - 408 sider |
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Side xxiv
... hap or cunning , chance or art , The wind in this strange music bore its part . " FAIRFAX'S Translation . The beauties of the different seasons , particularly of the spring and autumn , have frequently em- ployed xxiv PREFACE .
... hap or cunning , chance or art , The wind in this strange music bore its part . " FAIRFAX'S Translation . The beauties of the different seasons , particularly of the spring and autumn , have frequently em- ployed xxiv PREFACE .
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Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) of the spring and autumn , have frequently em- ployed the poet's pen : " Moist , bright , and green , the landscape laughs around . Full swell the woods ; their every music wakes , Mix'd in wild concert , with ...
Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) of the spring and autumn , have frequently em- ployed the poet's pen : " Moist , bright , and green , the landscape laughs around . Full swell the woods ; their every music wakes , Mix'd in wild concert , with ...
Side xxvi
... autumn - some will not hesitate to say that spring itself must yield to russet autumn . one advantage has spring , in being the herald of the year's ripe beauties ; whereas autumn is daily warning us of the approach of the chill blasts ...
... autumn - some will not hesitate to say that spring itself must yield to russet autumn . one advantage has spring , in being the herald of the year's ripe beauties ; whereas autumn is daily warning us of the approach of the chill blasts ...
Side xxviii
... autumn is diversified also with yellow , brown , and red . " But see , the fading many - coloured woods , Shade ... Autumn . " So when derne Autumn , wyth hys sallowe hande , Tares the green mantle from the lymed trees , The leaves ...
... autumn is diversified also with yellow , brown , and red . " But see , the fading many - coloured woods , Shade ... Autumn . " So when derne Autumn , wyth hys sallowe hande , Tares the green mantle from the lymed trees , The leaves ...
Side xxix
... autumn yet Have changed the woods , in scarlet honours bright . " COWPER . Surely the poet takes some licence , in calling the Poplar blue : " Below me trees unnumber'd rise , Beautiful in various dyes : The gloomy pine , the poplar ...
... autumn yet Have changed the woods , in scarlet honours bright . " COWPER . Surely the poet takes some licence , in calling the Poplar blue : " Below me trees unnumber'd rise , Beautiful in various dyes : The gloomy pine , the poplar ...
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Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.