 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 336 Seiten
...leaf, needs the broadest light to manifest its purity. But these transparent leaves of greenish white, which look dull in the day, are melted by the moon...the leaves, which have burst asunder suddenly like the fan-palm to make way for the stalk, — their edges in the day-time look ragged and unfinished,... | |
 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1852 - 364 Seiten
...leaf, needs the broadest light to manifest its purity. But these transparent leaves of greenish white, which look dull in the day, are melted by the moon...the leaves, which have burst asunder suddenly like the fan-palm to make way for the stalk, — their edges in the day-time look ragged and unfinished,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 386 Seiten
...does the plant not appear in its ' "destined hue by day, but the flower, though, as bell' "shaped, it cannot quite close again after having once '"expanded,...the '"leaves, which have burst asunder suddenly like the '"fan-palm to make way for the stalk, — their edges ' " in the day time look ragged and unfinished,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 366 Seiten
...only does the plant not appear in its ' "destined hue by day, but the flower, though, as bell'"shapeH, it cannot quite close again after having once '"expanded,...yet presses its petals together as closely ' "as it £a«, hangs down its little blossoms, and its tall '"stalk seems at noon to have reared itself only... | |
 | Joseph Breck - 1856 - 410 Seiten
...white, which look dull in the day, are melted by the moon to glistening silver. And not only does this plant not appear in its destined hue by day, but the...hangs down its little blossoms, and its tall stalk at noon seems to have reared itself only to betray a shabby insignificance. Thus, too, with the leaves,... | |
 | Joseph Breck - 1859 - 422 Seiten
...bell-shaped it cannot quite ckse again after having once expanded, yet presses its petals toge'hei as closely as it can, hangs down its little blossoms, and its tall oi^ik at noon seems to have reared itself only to betray a shabby iix Thus, too, with the leaves, which... | |
 | 1878 - 496 Seiten
...leaf, needs the broadest light to manifest its purity. But these transparent leaves of greenish-white, which look dull in the day, are melted by the moon...the leaves, which have burst asunder suddenly, like the Fan-palm, to make way for the stalk. Their edges, in the day-time, look ragged and unfinished,... | |
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Many white flowers are far more beautiful by day ; the lily, for instance, with its firm, thick leaf, needs the broadest light to manifest its purity. But these transparent leaves of greenish white, which look dull in the day, are melted by the moon to... 