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... flowers , and lastly dead nature ; a doll , dressed in stuffs of different colours , and always with gold and silver lace . I have obtained all the colours ; and , what is still more extraordinary and more curious is , that the gold and ...
... flowers , and lastly dead nature ; a doll , dressed in stuffs of different colours , and always with gold and silver lace . I have obtained all the colours ; and , what is still more extraordinary and more curious is , that the gold and ...
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THE FLOWERS OF GREAT BRITAIN . LONG ere Homer sung the tale of Troy divine , there wandered many a wild hunting - tribe over the grey hills of Hellas , in search of plunder or subsistence . Living in a climate of surpassing beauty , and ...
THE FLOWERS OF GREAT BRITAIN . LONG ere Homer sung the tale of Troy divine , there wandered many a wild hunting - tribe over the grey hills of Hellas , in search of plunder or subsistence . Living in a climate of surpassing beauty , and ...
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of the rural goddess beneath whose care and tutelage were supposed to flourish the flowers and fruits of the earth . The following pages contain the first portions of our little Flora , in which only those ... FLOWERS OF GREAT BRITAIN .
of the rural goddess beneath whose care and tutelage were supposed to flourish the flowers and fruits of the earth . The following pages contain the first portions of our little Flora , in which only those ... FLOWERS OF GREAT BRITAIN .
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... Flowers solitary of 6 flesh - coloured oval sepals ; flower - stalk surrounded at its base by three ternate leaves , with variously lobed and cut leaflets ; carpels slightly downy , beaked . - Woods and thickets . — March , April ...
... Flowers solitary of 6 flesh - coloured oval sepals ; flower - stalk surrounded at its base by three ternate leaves , with variously lobed and cut leaflets ; carpels slightly downy , beaked . - Woods and thickets . — March , April ...
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... flowering earlier than either R. acris , or repens . - May . -Bulbous Buttercup . tttt Leaves divided , flowers yellow ; carpels wrinkled , or spiny . 8. R. sceleratus L. Root fibrous ; radical and lower stem- leaves stalked ...
... flowering earlier than either R. acris , or repens . - May . -Bulbous Buttercup . tttt Leaves divided , flowers yellow ; carpels wrinkled , or spiny . 8. R. sceleratus L. Root fibrous ; radical and lower stem- leaves stalked ...
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Page 153 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread fathomless alone.
Page 157 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming ? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots...
Page 549 - Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 114 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 153 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 324 - Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought ; but •wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you : 9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Page 152 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 341 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Page 228 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Page 397 - When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.