Flora's DictionaryFielding Lucas, Jr., 1837 - 220 pagini |
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Pagina 3
... youth , gracefully presenting a rose to his mistress ? What language can convey a compliment so delicate and exquisite ? and if a communication of a still more interesting nature be intended , how much more refined , poetic and ...
... youth , gracefully presenting a rose to his mistress ? What language can convey a compliment so delicate and exquisite ? and if a communication of a still more interesting nature be intended , how much more refined , poetic and ...
Pagina 25
... youth , in age , thine own , for ever thine . A. A. Watts . The very thought of change I hate , As much as of despair ; Nor ever covet to be great , Unless it be for her . No change in love the seasons bring , Love only knows perpetual ...
... youth , in age , thine own , for ever thine . A. A. Watts . The very thought of change I hate , As much as of despair ; Nor ever covet to be great , Unless it be for her . No change in love the seasons bring , Love only knows perpetual ...
Pagina 26
... youth in all its freshness . Percival . 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 ...
... youth in all its freshness . Percival . 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 ...
Pagina 29
... youth , Some youth of fortune's titled train . Yet , will the youth , whoe'er he be , In truth or tenderness excel ? Or will he on thy charms , like me , With fondness never - dying dwell ? What though his boastful heart be vain Of all ...
... youth , Some youth of fortune's titled train . Yet , will the youth , whoe'er he be , In truth or tenderness excel ? Or will he on thy charms , like me , With fondness never - dying dwell ? What though his boastful heart be vain Of all ...
Pagina 34
... youth That ever made eye swerve ; had force and knowledge , More than ever man's - I would not prize them Without her I love . Shaks . CALLA ETHIOPICA . FEMININE MODESTY . ARUM ETHIOPICUM . ANSWER . The wealth I request is that of the ...
... youth That ever made eye swerve ; had force and knowledge , More than ever man's - I would not prize them Without her I love . Shaks . CALLA ETHIOPICA . FEMININE MODESTY . ARUM ETHIOPICUM . ANSWER . The wealth I request is that of the ...
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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
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 56 - The sportive toil, which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served too in hastier swell to show...
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...