Sylvan sketches; or, A companion to the park and the shrubbery, by the author of the Flora domestica1825 - 408 Seiten |
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... says , the Japonese consider the leaves as beneficial to the nerves , and lay them on any part of the body affected with pain , as a cure for it . CONIFERÆ . CEDAR TREE . PINUS CEDRUS . MONECIA MONADELPHIA Cássia Catalpa.
... says , the Japonese consider the leaves as beneficial to the nerves , and lay them on any part of the body affected with pain , as a cure for it . CONIFERÆ . CEDAR TREE . PINUS CEDRUS . MONECIA MONADELPHIA Cássia Catalpa.
Seite 70
... Cedar agrees in being an ever- green . " That noble tree , the Cedar of Lebanon , " says Martyn , in his edition of Miller , " has a general striking character of growth so peculiar to itself , that no other tree can possibly be ...
... Cedar agrees in being an ever- green . " That noble tree , the Cedar of Lebanon , " says Martyn , in his edition of Miller , " has a general striking character of growth so peculiar to itself , that no other tree can possibly be ...
Seite 71
... some was found that was two thousand years old ; and at Legunti , in Spain , a beam was dis- covered in an oratory consecrated to Diana , which was brought to Zante two centuries before the destruction of Troy CEDAR TREE . 71.
... some was found that was two thousand years old ; and at Legunti , in Spain , a beam was dis- covered in an oratory consecrated to Diana , which was brought to Zante two centuries before the destruction of Troy CEDAR TREE . 71.
Seite 72
... Cedar of Lebanon with other trees also bearing the name of Cedar ; and that , as to the material used in the heathen temples , it is very uncertain . But in building the sumptuous temple and palace of Solomon at Jeru- salem , we have ...
... Cedar of Lebanon with other trees also bearing the name of Cedar ; and that , as to the material used in the heathen temples , it is very uncertain . But in building the sumptuous temple and palace of Solomon at Jeru- salem , we have ...
Seite 73
... cedar t . " " And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers all was cedar , there was no stone seen . " And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone , and a row of cedar beams ‡ . " " Solomon ...
... cedar t . " " And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers all was cedar , there was no stone seen . " And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone , and a row of cedar beams ‡ . " " Solomon ...
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Sylvan Sketches; Or, a Companion to the Park and the Shrubbery, by the ... Elizabeth Kent (botanist ) Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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Seite 70 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Seite 70 - That landscape; and of pure, now purer air Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires Vernal delight and joy, able to drive All sadness but despair.
Seite 149 - Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects
Seite 150 - Come, my Corinna, come ! and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green, and trimmed with trees ; see how Devotion gives each house a bough, Or branch; each porch, each door, ere this An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white thorn neatly interwove ; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Seite 71 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it ; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent...
Seite 71 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Seite 404 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Seite xxxiii - Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More airy, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes...
Seite xxxvi - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High overarched, and echoing walks between...
Seite 79 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend. Lay me reclin'd Beneath the spreading tamarind that shakes, Fann'd by the breeze, its fever-cooling fruit.