The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists MagazineWhitaker & Company, 1848 |
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152. oldal - A nun demure, of lowly port; Or sprightly maiden of Love's court, In her simplicity the sport Of all temptations. A queen in crown of rubies drest; A starveling in a scanty vest; Are all as seems to suit it best, Its appellations. " A little Cyclops with one eye Staring to threaten and defy, That thought
222. oldal - fragrant flower. Milton makes Echo dwell amongst Violets:— " Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen By slow Meander's margent green, And in the Violet-embroider'd vale." Shakspeare compares the soft strains of plaintive music to the perfume of Violets:— " That strain again ; it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of Violets, Stealing, and giving odour.
271. oldal - art at which we look with praise or wonder are instances of the resistless force of perseverance. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion, yet these petty operations
152. oldal - in full bloom on Christmas-day, 1803:— " There is a flower, a little flower, With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. " The prouder beauties of the field In gay but quick succession shine, Kace after race their honours yield, They flourish and decline. " But this small flower, to Nature dear, While moon and stars their courses run,
185. oldal - In process of the seasons have I seen Three Aprils' perfumes in three hot Junes burned, Since first I saw you fresh which yet are green.'' The same mode was used by that young poet—in losing whom we have lost so much
150. oldal - nought; And oft alone in nooks remote We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. " Be Violets in their secret mews The flowers the wanton Zephyrs choose ; Proud be the Eose, with rains and dews Her head impearling; Thou
185. oldal - 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 forest shook three summers' pride; Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turned. In process of the seasons have I seen Three
150. oldal - In shoals and bands, a morrice train, Thou greet'st the traveller in the lane ; If welcomed once, thou count'st it gain; Thou art not daunted, Nor car'st if thou be set at nought; And oft alone in nooks remote We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. " Be Violets in their secret mews The flowers the wanton Zephyrs choose ; Proud be the
270. oldal - of London Pride." It has been remarked by Johnson, " That all the performances of human art at which we look with praise or wonder are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
152. oldal - simplicity the sport Of all temptations. A queen in crown of rubies drest; A starveling in a scanty vest; Are all as seems to suit