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Page 148 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood ; I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 43 - First unadorned, And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose ; The Ionic then, with decent matron grace, Her airy pillar heaved ; luxuriant last, The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath.
Page 156 - Sir William Jones describes an oriental MS. in which the name of Mohammed was fancifully adorned with a garland of tulips and carnations, painted in the brightest colours. The favourite works of the Persians are written on fine silky paper, the ground of which is often powdered with gold or silver dust ; the leaves are frequently illuminated, and the whole book is sometimes perfumed with essence of roses or sandal wood. The Romans had several sorts of paper...
Page 149 - But rather to tell how, if art could tell, How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold...
Page xii - Well, to my taste," said my mother, "the novels I used to read when a girl (for I have not read many since, I am ashamed to say) — " MR. CAXTON. — " No, you need not be at all ashamed of it, Kitty.
Page 148 - The sublime idea which Milton entertained of a fairy vision corresponds rather with that which the Persian poets have conceived of the Peries. " Their port was more than human as they stood ; I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live And play i' th
Page 157 - ... où le voyageur n'a jamais respiré sous l'ombrage, où rien ne l'accompagne, rien ne lui rappelle la nature vivante : solitude absolue, mille fois plus affreuse que celle des forêts; car les arbres sont encore des êtres pour l'homme qui se...
Page 39 - Shall we become old without having known enjoyment ? • CHILDREN of nature! the universal parent prepares for ye the maturity of happiness!
Page 155 - ... by a natural association of ideas, they are therefore connected as the constant and inseparable attendants of the spring. It is probable too that the nightingale's favorite retreat may be the rose-garden, and the leaves of that flower occasionally his food; but it is certain that he is delighted with its smell, and sometimes indulges in the fragrant luxury to such excess as to fall from the branch, intoxicated and helpless, to the ground.