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... variety to this symbolical language . If this be an objection , it applies with equal force to spoken language . For , although such of our words as are intended to convey the idea of sounds , seem to be manifest imitations of these ...
... variety to this symbolical language . If this be an objection , it applies with equal force to spoken language . For , although such of our words as are intended to convey the idea of sounds , seem to be manifest imitations of these ...
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... variety of useful pur- poses . The fresh cut surface of the Caoutchouc will unite together by simple contact , and , by a proper pressure , may be brought so completely in union , as to be no more liable to separate in that part than ...
... variety of useful pur- poses . The fresh cut surface of the Caoutchouc will unite together by simple contact , and , by a proper pressure , may be brought so completely in union , as to be no more liable to separate in that part than ...
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... VARIETY . WORTH BEYOND BEAUTY . ALYSSUM MARITIMUM . New beauties rise with each revolving day !. Thomson . Each look , each motion , waked a new - born grace , That o'er her form its transient glory cast : Some lovelier wonder soon ...
... VARIETY . WORTH BEYOND BEAUTY . ALYSSUM MARITIMUM . New beauties rise with each revolving day !. Thomson . Each look , each motion , waked a new - born grace , That o'er her form its transient glory cast : Some lovelier wonder soon ...
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... variety . The Pseudo Acacia , or common locust , is also a native of North America , from Canada to Carolina : and , in the months of May and June , it is laden with bunches of white sweet - scented flowers , resembling those of the ...
... variety . The Pseudo Acacia , or common locust , is also a native of North America , from Canada to Carolina : and , in the months of May and June , it is laden with bunches of white sweet - scented flowers , resembling those of the ...
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... variety produces smaller flowers , of a dark purple . North America abounds in Asters of every variety of hue . Class 13 POLYANDRIA . ANEMONE . ( See Note on Adonis . ) Order . POLYGYNIA . Class 21 . MONCIA . Nat . Ord . Linn ...
... variety produces smaller flowers , of a dark purple . North America abounds in Asters of every variety of hue . Class 13 POLYANDRIA . ANEMONE . ( See Note on Adonis . ) Order . POLYGYNIA . Class 21 . MONCIA . Nat . Ord . Linn ...
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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
Popular passages
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 56 - The sportive toil, which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served too in hastier swell to show...
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...