Flowers and Flower-gardensD'Rozario and Company, 1855 - 232 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 33
Seite 10
... lawns and spires , And glittering towns and gilded streams , ' till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays ! Happy Brittannia ! where the Queen of Arts , Inspiring vigor , Liberty , abroad Walks unconfined , even to thy farthest ...
... lawns and spires , And glittering towns and gilded streams , ' till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays ! Happy Brittannia ! where the Queen of Arts , Inspiring vigor , Liberty , abroad Walks unconfined , even to thy farthest ...
Seite 12
... lawns . " Lawns and gravel walks , " says a writer in the Quarterly Review , " are the pride of English Gar- dens , " " The smoothness and verdure of our lawns , " continues the same writer , " is the first thing in our gardens that ...
... lawns . " Lawns and gravel walks , " says a writer in the Quarterly Review , " are the pride of English Gar- dens , " " The smoothness and verdure of our lawns , " continues the same writer , " is the first thing in our gardens that ...
Seite 13
... lawns , and it is said that they some- times partially succeed with English grass seed , rich manure , and constant ... lawn is quite idle unless the ground is extensive and open , and much trodden by men or sheep . A friend of mine ...
... lawns , and it is said that they some- times partially succeed with English grass seed , rich manure , and constant ... lawn is quite idle unless the ground is extensive and open , and much trodden by men or sheep . A friend of mine ...
Seite 14
... lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride . It is impossible to put into any form of words the faintest representation of that delightful summer feeling which is excited in fine weather by the sight of the mossy turf of our country . It is ...
... lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride . It is impossible to put into any form of words the faintest representation of that delightful summer feeling which is excited in fine weather by the sight of the mossy turf of our country . It is ...
Seite 25
... lawns , rivu- lets , fountains , and such like pleasant places , ( like that Antiochian Daphne , ) brooks , pools , fishponds , between wood and water , in a fair meadow , by a river side , ubi variœ avium cantationes , florum colores ...
... lawns , rivu- lets , fountains , and such like pleasant places , ( like that Antiochian Daphne , ) brooks , pools , fishponds , between wood and water , in a fair meadow , by a river side , ubi variœ avium cantationes , florum colores ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Flowers and Flower-Gardens: With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and ... David Lester Richardson Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2019 |
Flowers and Flower-Gardens: With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and ... David Lester Richardson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
Flowers and Flower Gardens: With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and ... David Lester Richardson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2008 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiration Alcinous alluded amongst beautiful birds bloom blossoms blue Botany bowers breath bright buds bulb Calcutta called charms CHIG cloth color cultivated daisy delight earth elegant England English English Garden fair favorite floral fragrance garden genius give grace grass green ground groves grow handsome Harebell heart Hesperides hills Hindu Horace Walpole Hyacinth Illustrations inches India lady landscape lawns leaf leaf mould Leasowes leaves Leigh Hunt light lily living Lord MICHI native Natural History nosegay o'er observes ornamental Ovid Paradise parterre petals pink Pitcairnia plant pleasure poem poet Pope pots pretty primrose purple rains rich root rose RSITY rural sacred says scene season seed shade Shakespeare Shenstone Shiva shrubs smell soil species Stapelia sweet taste thing thou tree tulip Twickenham UNIV ERSITY varieties violet vols white flower wild wind yellow
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 172 - O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane. There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sun-ward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise ; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade ! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, 'Till she, like thee, all soil'd, is laid Low i
Seite 173 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is...
Seite 15 - Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied : for though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.
Seite 163 - It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Seite 131 - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips and The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one...
Seite 197 - To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers...
Seite 196 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one, To live in Paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers, and herbs, this dial new; Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers!
Seite 168 - At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts...
Seite 134 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues.
Seite 50 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let nature never be forgot.