Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With a New and Full Description of the Plants of the United States and Cultivated Exotics, &c. : for the Use of Seminaries, Private Students, and Practical BotanistsHuntington and Savage, 1849 - 466 páginas |
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Página 45 - That cultivation glories in, are His. He sets the bright procession on its way, And marshals all the order of the year. He marks the bounds which 'Winter may not pass, And blunts his pointed fury. In its case, Russet and rude, folds up the tender germ Uninjured, with inimitable art, And, ere one flowery season fades and dies, Designs the blooming wonders of the next.
Página 236 - God, by whom all things were made, and without whom was not any thing made that was made.
Página 220 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Página 219 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Página 149 - Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours.
Página 157 - 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, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear.
Página 58 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Página 160 - The Erica here, That o'er the Caledonian hills sublime Spreads its dark mantle, (where the bees delight To seek their purest honey) flourishes, Sometimes with bells like amethysts, and then Paler, and shaded like the maiden's cheek With gradual blushes— other while, as white As rime that hangs upon the frozen spray.
Página 191 - The eternal regions : lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...