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... sweet figs , and olives in their bloom . The fruit of these trees never perisheth , neither faileth winter or summer , enduring through all the year . Ever- more the West Wind blowing brings some fruits to birth and 1 From an ...
... sweet figs , and olives in their bloom . The fruit of these trees never perisheth , neither faileth winter or summer , enduring through all the year . Ever- more the West Wind blowing brings some fruits to birth and 1 From an ...
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... sweet ? Is it not because the soil of Attica is light and dry , so that plants do not find in it much moisture ? .. Why do myrtles rubbed between the fingers seem to produce a better scent , than when not rubbed ? Is it not the same as ...
... sweet ? Is it not because the soil of Attica is light and dry , so that plants do not find in it much moisture ? .. Why do myrtles rubbed between the fingers seem to produce a better scent , than when not rubbed ? Is it not the same as ...
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... sweet tamarisk and fresh cuttings from the vines , strewn on the ground . Many poplars and elm - trees were waving over our heads , and not far off the running of the sacred water from the cave of the nymphs warbled to us : in the ...
... sweet tamarisk and fresh cuttings from the vines , strewn on the ground . Many poplars and elm - trees were waving over our heads , and not far off the running of the sacred water from the cave of the nymphs warbled to us : in the ...
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... sweet smelling hearbs , what reckoning was made of them in old time may appeare by this , That a man could not heretofore come by a commoner's house within the citie , but he should see the windowes beautified with greene quishins ...
... sweet smelling hearbs , what reckoning was made of them in old time may appeare by this , That a man could not heretofore come by a commoner's house within the citie , but he should see the windowes beautified with greene quishins ...
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... sweet flowers , and shrubs of every kind ; their vines bear twelve times in the year , yielding fruit every month , their apples , pomegranates , and the rest of our autumnal produce , thirteen times , bearing twice in the month of ...
... sweet flowers , and shrubs of every kind ; their vines bear twelve times in the year , yielding fruit every month , their apples , pomegranates , and the rest of our autumnal produce , thirteen times , bearing twice in the month of ...
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Page 262 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Page xv - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices : A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Page 310 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate. The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers, 'I wait.
Page 61 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 337 - Of a steep wilderness whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild. Access denied; and overhead up - grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 338 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose: Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant ; meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispers'd, or in a lake, That to the fringed bank with myrtle crown'd Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.
Page 310 - Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown.
Page 212 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 63 - ... or desert, in the going forth, and the main garden in the midst, besides alleys on both sides ; and, I like well, that four acres of ground be assigned to the green, six to the heath, four and four to either side, and twelve to the main garden.