 | 1863 - 622 pages
...been highly esteemed in the East ' He who has two cakes of bread,' Mahomed is reported to have said, ' let him sell one of them for some flowers of the Narcissus ; for bread is the food of the body, but narcissus is the food of the soul.' Venerable, however, as is the renown... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1863 - 602 pages
...highly esteemed in the East. ' He who has two cakes of bread,' Mahomed is reported to have said, ' let him sell one of them for some flowers of the Narcissus ; for bread is the food of the body, but narcissus is the food of the soul.' Venerable, however, as is the renown... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1863 - 626 pages
...highly esteemed in the East. ' He who has two cakes of bread,' Mahomed is reported to have said, ' let him sell one of them for some flowers of the Narcissus ; for bread is the food of the body, but narcissus is the food of the soul.' soul.' Venerable, however, as is the... | |
 | Richard John King - Belgium - 1874 - 464 pages
...highly esteemed in the East. ' He who has two cakes of bread,' Mahomed is reported to have said, ' let him sell one of them for some flowers of the narcissus ; for bread is the food of the body, but narcissus is the food of the soul.' Venerable, however, as is the renown... | |
 | David Taylor Fish - Bulbs - 1877 - 498 pages
...beauties of Nature, was so struck with the beauty of the narnissus'or Sharon rose as to have advised, " He that has two cakes of bread, let him sell one of them for some flower of the narcissus ; for bread is the food of the body, but narcissus is the food of the soul... | |
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - Gardens in literature - 1878 - 316 pages
...be called the King of Daffodils, though some authors have given to it a still more illustrious name. The " Rose of Sharon was the large yellow Narcissus,...Mahomet said—' He that has two cakes of bread, let him fell one of them for some flower of the Narcissus, for bread is the food of the body, but Narcissus... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Botany - 1881 - 484 pages
...yellow-flowered Narcissus, common in Palestine and in the East generally, of which Mahomet said, " He that hath two cakes of bread, let him sell one of them for some flowers of Narcissus, for bread is the food of the body, but Narcissus is the food of the soul." It had been the... | |
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - Daisies - 1884 - 464 pages
...be called the King of Daffodils, though some authors have given to it a still more illustrious name. The " Rose of Sharon was the large yellow Narcissus,...cakes of bread, let him sell one of them for some flower of the Narcissus, for bread is the food of the body, but Narcissus is the food of the soul."... | |
 | Jean Allan Owen, George Simonds Boulger - Animal behavior - 1902 - 508 pages
...hackneyed line, " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever " ; and the deliberate utterance of Mahomet, " He that has two cakes of bread, let him sell one of them for some flower of the narcissus ; for bread is the food of the body; but narcissus is food for the soul." Then,... | |
 | Rosamund Marriott Watson - Gardening - 1906 - 262 pages
...slope, and joy is in the ascent : satisfaction there may be on the summit ; but this is pure gold. " He that has two cakes of bread, let him sell one of them for some flower of the narcissus," said the Prophet ; " for bread is the food of the body, but narcissus is... | |
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Sharon is, in all probability, the large, single yellow Narcissus — a flower common in Palestine, and one that has always been highly esteemed in the East ' He who has two cakes of bread,' Mahomed is reported to have said, ' let him sell one of them... 
