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... berries glow ; The thick - sprung reeds which watery marshes yield Seem polished lances in a hostile field ; The stag , in limpid currents , with surprise , Sees crystal branches on his forehead rise ; The spreading oak , the beech ...
... berries glow ; The thick - sprung reeds which watery marshes yield Seem polished lances in a hostile field ; The stag , in limpid currents , with surprise , Sees crystal branches on his forehead rise ; The spreading oak , the beech ...
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... berries . In its wild state this shrub seldom exceeds four feet in height , but by cultivation may be reared to ten or twelve feet . It is a native of the greater part of Europe , and of Siberia . From the bark and the berries are ...
... berries . In its wild state this shrub seldom exceeds four feet in height , but by cultivation may be reared to ten or twelve feet . It is a native of the greater part of Europe , and of Siberia . From the bark and the berries are ...
Side 14
... berries . It is a native of Portugal , and of the islands of the Archipelago ; and was cultivated in the Chelsea Botanic Garden , in the year 1739 . It has been supposed to be the plant with which the ancients crowned their victors ...
... berries . It is a native of Portugal , and of the islands of the Archipelago ; and was cultivated in the Chelsea Botanic Garden , in the year 1739 . It has been supposed to be the plant with which the ancients crowned their victors ...
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... berry ; and the traveller and his com- panions made a supper of it * . Barthelemy speaks of the height of these trees in ascending Mount Ida : - " Nous étions frappés de la grosseur des cyprès , de la hauteur des Arbousiers et des ...
... berry ; and the traveller and his com- panions made a supper of it * . Barthelemy speaks of the height of these trees in ascending Mount Ida : - " Nous étions frappés de la grosseur des cyprès , de la hauteur des Arbousiers et des ...
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... berry is green when first formed ; when ripe , of a bright red . This fruit is made into jellies and other preserves , and an essential salt is obtained from them : they are some- times pickled . Their acidity is unpleasant to birds ...
... berry is green when first formed ; when ripe , of a bright red . This fruit is made into jellies and other preserves , and an essential salt is obtained from them : they are some- times pickled . Their acidity is unpleasant to birds ...
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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.