| 1810 - 590 pages
...trained her pace — A foot more light, a step more true, fcJe'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew, E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : '...'•. What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue, Those silver... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...trained her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue, — Those silver sounds,... | |
| Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...trained her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue, — Those silver sounds,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...train'd her pace,— A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread: What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue,— Those silver sounds,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1825 - 1096 pages
...trained her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue, — Those silver sounds,... | |
| Elizabeth Kent - Floriculture - 1825 - 516 pages
...trained her pace ? A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew : E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread." LADY OF THE LAKH. CANDY-TUFT. JBERIS. CRUCIFEB*. TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. Candy-Tuft takes its English... | |
| James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 pages
...English harebell. A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread. When applied to the campanula it is very intelligible. * The Cyanella genus, found at the Cape, is... | |
| Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botany - 1830 - 502 pages
...walls, &c. abundant, sometimes varying with white flowers. Fl. July, Sept. If. . Panicle of few flowers, lax. Flowers drooping. Whole plant slender and graceful...Hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread." 2. C. pdtula, Linn, (spreading Bell-flower') ; stem angular scabrous, leaves roughish dentato-crenate... | |
| William Jackson Hooker - 1831 - 498 pages
...borders of fields, walls, &c. abundant, sometimes varying with white flowers. Ft. July, Sept. TJ.. — Panicle fewflowered, lax. Flowers drooping. Whole plant slender and graceful: " E'en the slight Ifare-bett raised its bead, Klastic from her airy tread.'* . 2. C. pdtula, Linn, (spreading Bell-flower)... | |
| Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Botany - 1832 - 448 pages
...Lady of the Lake ; " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head Elastic, from her airy tread." The flower which we term the hare-bell is the Campanula rotundifolia ; this is very common near water-falls,... | |
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