Flora's DictionaryFielding Lucas, Jr., 1837 - 220 էջ |
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... earth what an interest has the science of botany thrown over it ! Yet how few are there , among us , who are disposed to taste of the banquet which this science affords ! -Again , these flowers interest us by their beauty and fragrance ...
... earth what an interest has the science of botany thrown over it ! Yet how few are there , among us , who are disposed to taste of the banquet which this science affords ! -Again , these flowers interest us by their beauty and fragrance ...
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... earth ? Some of the lines are original contributions for this little work , and it is believed that they will be found worthy of this association with established poets . In some instances answers are furnished ; these may be tacitly ...
... earth ? Some of the lines are original contributions for this little work , and it is believed that they will be found worthy of this association with established poets . In some instances answers are furnished ; these may be tacitly ...
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... earth for the sup- port of the plant . The seed of a plant committed to the ground , swells by the moisture it imbibes , and in a few days , throws out two shoots ; the first strikes downward into the soil , and forms the root or ...
... earth for the sup- port of the plant . The seed of a plant committed to the ground , swells by the moisture it imbibes , and in a few days , throws out two shoots ; the first strikes downward into the soil , and forms the root or ...
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... earth , as has been lately ascertained . This is the case in the Wheat , Oat , and in different plants . The Stalks are those parts which branch out from the stem , and support the leaves , flowers , or fruits ; as the straw in grasses ...
... earth , as has been lately ascertained . This is the case in the Wheat , Oat , and in different plants . The Stalks are those parts which branch out from the stem , and support the leaves , flowers , or fruits ; as the straw in grasses ...
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... earth , with a cup inverted over it , to prevent its exhalation from being at first greater than its power of absorption , it will produce a tree similar to its parent . Linnæus observes , that trees and shrubs are roots above ground ...
... earth , with a cup inverted over it , to prevent its exhalation from being at first greater than its power of absorption , it will produce a tree similar to its parent . Linnæus observes , that trees and shrubs are roots above ground ...
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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...