Flora's DictionaryFielding Lucas, Jr., 1837 - 220 էջ |
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... virtue , or some other circumstances connected with its history or character . It would be idle to swell this preface , and to seek to give consequence to a trifle so light and airy as this , by indicating , in every instance , the ...
... virtue , or some other circumstances connected with its history or character . It would be idle to swell this preface , and to seek to give consequence to a trifle so light and airy as this , by indicating , in every instance , the ...
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... ! -but how vain each art , Whilst every virtue lives imprinted on my heart . Shaw . Too faithful memory - cease - oh cease How shall I e'er regain my peace ! . Id . ALTHEA FRUTEX - continued . Love was to his impassioned 22.
... ! -but how vain each art , Whilst every virtue lives imprinted on my heart . Shaw . Too faithful memory - cease - oh cease How shall I e'er regain my peace ! . Id . ALTHEA FRUTEX - continued . Love was to his impassioned 22.
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... Virtue , a better spell supply ! And trust in that Benignant Eye Which wills not , in all earth's wide sphere , One idle pang , one needless tear . Cruse . ALTHÆA FRUTEX . CONSUMED BY LOVE . My heart's on flame , and does like fire To ...
... Virtue , a better spell supply ! And trust in that Benignant Eye Which wills not , in all earth's wide sphere , One idle pang , one needless tear . Cruse . ALTHÆA FRUTEX . CONSUMED BY LOVE . My heart's on flame , and does like fire To ...
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... virtue's ground . Shaks . AMARANTHUS . They sin who tell us love can die ; With life all other passions fly , All others are but vanity . In heaven ambition cannot dwell , Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions of ...
... virtue's ground . Shaks . AMARANTHUS . They sin who tell us love can die ; With life all other passions fly , All others are but vanity . In heaven ambition cannot dwell , Nor avarice in the vaults of hell ; Earthly these passions of ...
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... Virtue gives pleasure an eternal reign . Virtue can brook the thoughts of age , That lasts the same through every stage . Young . Gay . What nothing earthly gives , or can destroy , The soul's calm sunshine , and the heartfelt joy , Is ...
... Virtue gives pleasure an eternal reign . Virtue can brook the thoughts of age , That lasts the same through every stage . Young . Gay . What nothing earthly gives , or can destroy , The soul's calm sunshine , and the heartfelt joy , Is ...
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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...