Flora's DictionaryFielding Lucas, Jr., 1837 - 220 էջ |
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... blue and yellow parts . The texture , also of the white and red Rose is very different . It is from reflected rays that we judge of the colour of objects . The whiteness of paper , & c . is occasioned by its reflecting the greatest part ...
... blue and yellow parts . The texture , also of the white and red Rose is very different . It is from reflected rays that we judge of the colour of objects . The whiteness of paper , & c . is occasioned by its reflecting the greatest part ...
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... blue . Providence seems to have decorated Nature with an enchanting diversity of colours , for the purpose of beau- tifying the scene , and rendering it a source of sensible gratification . His kindness is also evident in causing such a ...
... blue . Providence seems to have decorated Nature with an enchanting diversity of colours , for the purpose of beau- tifying the scene , and rendering it a source of sensible gratification . His kindness is also evident in causing such a ...
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... BLUE BOTTLE . A MAIDEN'S REVERIE . She left the festival , for that seem'd dim , Now that her eye no longer dwelt on him . CENTAURED CYANUS , BOX . BUXUS . To think on low , soft words Thomson's Masquerade . Her ear had drunk that night ...
... BLUE BOTTLE . A MAIDEN'S REVERIE . She left the festival , for that seem'd dim , Now that her eye no longer dwelt on him . CENTAURED CYANUS , BOX . BUXUS . To think on low , soft words Thomson's Masquerade . Her ear had drunk that night ...
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... BLUE . GRATITUDE . I cannot tell thee what I feel , for words CAMPANULA MEDIUM . Have not the power to shadow forth the soul's Deep and intense affections ; but my heart , My life , already thine , again I give thee- Poor evidence of my ...
... BLUE . GRATITUDE . I cannot tell thee what I feel , for words CAMPANULA MEDIUM . Have not the power to shadow forth the soul's Deep and intense affections ; but my heart , My life , already thine , again I give thee- Poor evidence of my ...
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... BLUE . JEALOUSY . Love , thou knowest , is full of jealousy ! HYACINTHUS . HYACINTH . FEATHERED . HYACINTHUS MONSTROSUS . EXCESS OF BEAUTY HATH BEWITCHED ME . ... Shaks . In gentle love the sweetest joys we find- Yet even those joys ...
... BLUE . JEALOUSY . Love , thou knowest , is full of jealousy ! HYACINTHUS . HYACINTH . FEATHERED . HYACINTHUS MONSTROSUS . EXCESS OF BEAUTY HATH BEWITCHED ME . ... Shaks . In gentle love the sweetest joys we find- Yet even those joys ...
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Flora's Dictionary. [A treatise on the language of flowers. With a series of ... Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1835 |
Common terms and phrases
Amaranth ancient ANSWER Aster bear beauty berries Bishop bloom blossoms blue blush botanists branches breath bright Byron called calyx charms Class 12 Class 14 Class 21 colour common corolla crimson Crocus crown cultivated dark Darwin DECANDRIA deciduous derived Dryden earth emblem esteemed fair five florets flowers fragrance frankincense fruit garden genus Gilly flower grace Greek green grows hath heart heaven honour hyacinth Juss Latin Laurustinus leaf leaves light lily Linn Linnæus Lotos Love's lover Lychnis MONOGYNIA Moore Moss Narcissus native ne'er nectary o'er odour Order ovate Ovid pale panicle passion PENTANDRIA perennial perianth petals pink pistils plant POLYANDRIA POLYGAMIA Pope Primrose Primula purple resembling root ROSA rose seeds shade Shaks shrub smile smooth soul species spring stalk stamens stem sweet thee thine thou thought tree tulip umbel variety violet virtue wild word yellow Young
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Էջ 124 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Էջ 82 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Էջ 56 - The sportive toil, which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served too in hastier swell to show...
Էջ 88 - Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction; had he rain'd All kinds of sores, and shames, on my bare head; Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips; Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes; I should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience: but (alas!) to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at,— O!
Էջ 1 - The eternal regions : lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...
Էջ 32 - I'll sweeten thy sad grave : thou shall not lack The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor The azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Էջ 24 - But that loveliness, ever in motion, which plays Like the light upon autumn's soft shadowy days, Now here and now there, giving warmth as it flies From the lips to the cheek, from the cheek to the eyes, Now melting in mist and now breaking in gleams, Like the glimpses a saint has of heaven in his dreams...
Էջ 80 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Էջ 80 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.
Էջ 96 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...