 | James Edward Smith - 1793 - 444 oldal
...purpuro-cferuleum, of which we preferved fpecimens as relicks. A plant gathered in a celebrated or delightful fpot, is like the hair of a friend, more dear to memory than even a portrait ; becaufe it excites the imagination, without prefuming to fill it. Not far diftant is the Pifcina... | |
 | sir James Edward Smith - 1807 - 462 oldal
...the elegant Cyclamen, and Lithospermum purpuro-cterulenm^ of which we preserved specimens as relics. A plant gathered in a celebrated or delightful spot,...hair of a friend, more dear to memory than even a .X-.-P--X portrait; portrait ; because it excites the imagination, without presuming to fill it. Not... | |
 | John Sims - 1811 - 378 oldal
...fecond volume of his Tour, where he remarks that " a plant gathered in a celebrated or delightful fpot, is like the hair of a friend, more dear to memory than even a portrait ; becaufe it excites the imagination, without prefuming to fill it." To the Readers of the Botanical... | |
 | 1825 - 878 oldal
...own words. " A plant," says this elegant writer, on collecting some specimens near the Bay of Baia, " gathered in a celebrated or delightful spot, is like...portrait ; because it excites the imagination without attempting to fill it." Through the operation of a similar feeling, even Mr Oldbuck, with all the callosity... | |
 | 1825 - 808 oldal
...own words. " A plant," says this elegant writer, on collecting some specimens near the Bay of Biia, " gathered in a celebrated or delightful spot, is like...the hair of a friend,— more dear to memory than ewn a portrait ; because it excites the imagination without attempting to fill it." Through the operation... | |
 | George Luxford - 1838 - 160 oldal
..."summers of old " when they were collected. Sir JE Smith has remarked that "a plant, gathered in some celebrated or delightful spot, is, like the hair of...memory than even a portrait, because it excites the mind without presuming to fill it."* And it will, I think, be readily granted by all who have ever... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1847 - 62 oldal
...Sands of Barrie is one locality for the black-fruited Weissia — the mountain Ben-y-Gloe is another. v Sir James E. Smith, the author of the English Flora,...or delightful spot, is like the hair of a friend, more^dear to memory than even a portrait, because it excites the imagination without presuming to fill... | |
 | George Johnston, George Tate - 1853 - 444 oldal
...reminiscences and thoughts which the spot gives life to. "A plant," to use the words of Sir James Edward Smith, "gathered in a celebrated or delightful spot, is,...excites the imagination, without presuming to fill it." " Thanks be to Nature, some green spots remain Free from the tread and stain of that gross world Whose... | |
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a plant gathered in a celebrated or delightful spot, is like the hair of a friend, more dear to memory than even a portrait, because it excites the imagination without presuming to fill it. 