Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with Observations on the Formation of Ornamental Plantations, and Picturesque Scenery, Volume 2 |
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... early lark , or the plaintive tones of the night- ingale . 66 A breath of unadulterated air , The glimpse of a green pasture , how they cheer The citizen , and brace his languid frame ! ” Yet how careful have they been to keep it as ...
... early lark , or the plaintive tones of the night- ingale . 66 A breath of unadulterated air , The glimpse of a green pasture , how they cheer The citizen , and brace his languid frame ! ” Yet how careful have they been to keep it as ...
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... early days , would have been too great for common purposes . The larch is a native of the south of Europe and of Siberia ; it grows abundantly in Swit- zerland and in Provence , & c . and as it must naturally create considerable ...
... early days , would have been too great for common purposes . The larch is a native of the south of Europe and of Siberia ; it grows abundantly in Swit- zerland and in Provence , & c . and as it must naturally create considerable ...
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... , which when ma- tured are from one to two inches in length , and whose scales protect the seeds in the same manner as the cones of the fir and cedar , & c . 1 The larch was cultivated in this country as early as LARCH . 13.
... , which when ma- tured are from one to two inches in length , and whose scales protect the seeds in the same manner as the cones of the fir and cedar , & c . 1 The larch was cultivated in this country as early as LARCH . 13.
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... early as 1629 , as it is mentioned by Parkinson , in " The Corollary to his Orchard ; " but so late as 1656 , when the second edition was pub- lished , it was but little known ; and as the tree is now more generally distributed over the ...
... early as 1629 , as it is mentioned by Parkinson , in " The Corollary to his Orchard ; " but so late as 1656 , when the second edition was pub- lished , it was but little known ; and as the tree is now more generally distributed over the ...
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... earliest planters of larch we notice the Duke of Atholl , who , we are told by Dr. An- derson , planted 200,000 every year ; and by an account which we have lately been favoured with , it appears that his Grace planted 1,102,367 in the ...
... earliest planters of larch we notice the Duke of Atholl , who , we are told by Dr. An- derson , planted 200,000 every year ; and by an account which we have lately been favoured with , it appears that his Grace planted 1,102,367 in the ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 163 - Go, LOVELY rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.