The Plants. A Poem, Cantos the First and Second, with Notes; and Occasional Poems1808 - 156 páginas |
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... LIBERTY , THE VINE of FRIENDSHIP , and THE PALM of RELIGION . The four affections here alluded to seem , either singly or variously interwoven , to occupy and conduct the minds of the more susceptible and generous portion of mankind ...
... LIBERTY , THE VINE of FRIENDSHIP , and THE PALM of RELIGION . The four affections here alluded to seem , either singly or variously interwoven , to occupy and conduct the minds of the more susceptible and generous portion of mankind ...
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... he may be at greater liberty to make what use he pleases of the annexed commentary , either by perusing it before or after the Poem ; or never , if he deems it useless . In the few passages where the names , either specific.
... he may be at greater liberty to make what use he pleases of the annexed commentary , either by perusing it before or after the Poem ; or never , if he deems it useless . In the few passages where the names , either specific.
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... liberty To wave the proud Batavian , who , from times Remote , a noble ancestry asserts , The boast of courts , and Macedonian bowers , By Gordius or by Midas consecrate To orgian revelries : as lovely now 225 230 Though common ...
... liberty To wave the proud Batavian , who , from times Remote , a noble ancestry asserts , The boast of courts , and Macedonian bowers , By Gordius or by Midas consecrate To orgian revelries : as lovely now 225 230 Though common ...
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... in France . " Cette espèce diffère considerablement de tous les autres rosiers , par ses petites fleurs paniculées et par ses peduncules vèlus . " Guillemeau . Give liberty and food . So prejudice , Or habits THE ROSE . 17.
... in France . " Cette espèce diffère considerablement de tous les autres rosiers , par ses petites fleurs paniculées et par ses peduncules vèlus . " Guillemeau . Give liberty and food . So prejudice , Or habits THE ROSE . 17.
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William Tighe. Give liberty and food . So prejudice , Or habits , nursed by nature , prone to ill , Obstruct the useful current of the soul , Till active wisdom lops the nocent part . Thus , may succeeding months renew their pride ...
William Tighe. Give liberty and food . So prejudice , Or habits , nursed by nature , prone to ill , Obstruct the useful current of the soul , Till active wisdom lops the nocent part . Thus , may succeeding months renew their pride ...
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The Plants, a Poem, Cantos the First And: With Notes, and Occasional Poems ... William Tighe Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Términos y frases comunes
acorns Adonis altars Amadis de Gaul amid Anacreon ancient arms Bashan beauteous beautiful bend beneath blast blood bloom blush boughs bower breath breeze British buds called Callimachus Campania CANTO cedar celebrated cherished climes colour consecrated crowned Damask Dog Rose Dryads earth eglantine emblem enchanted Eurytus Ezech fading Fauns repeat feast flowers forest gale gardens glowing golden grace Greece Greeks groves Guillemeau hath Hercynian Hercynian forest hills hues immortal insect Irem Isaiah isles Kermes Oak leaves liberty Linnæus mentions mighty Muse native Note nymphs o'er thy odour Pausias perfumed Persia plant Pliny precious purple Quercus rear repeat the strain robore rock Rosa centifolia Rosa Damascena Rose Rose-tree says scented shade Shiraz shore sings smiles song soul species spring stem sweetbriar sword Taranis Tarshish thee Theocritus Theophrastus thorns thou tree vale variety of Rosa Venus verdant vine waves wind woods worship
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Página 117 - When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: 20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Página 45 - Mellowed by ocean's briny dews; When, in the starry courts above, The pregnant brain of mighty Jove Disclosed the nymph of azure glance, The nymph who shakes the martial lance ; Then, then, in strange eventful hour, The earth produced an infant flower, Which sprung, with blushing tinctures drest, And wantoned o'er its parent breast. The gods beheld this brilliant birth, And hailed the Rose, the boon of earth...
Página 123 - Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
Página 119 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Página 45 - And when at length, in pale decline, Its florid beauties fade and pine, Sweet as in youth, its balmy breath Diffuses odour e'en in death ! Oh! whence could such a plant have sprung? Attend — for thus the tale is sung. When, humid, from the silvery stream, Effusing beauty's...
Página 51 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered.
Página 137 - ... une autre, tout cela n'est rien : il n'a de souvenir à placer nulle part : c'est la quantité de coups de hache qu'il faut qu'il donne pour abattre un arbre, qui est son unique idée.
Página 136 - ... in the centre of a few fields of wheat, tobacco, or indian corn ; these fields Separated by a kind of fence made with branches of trees instead of hedges, for the most part full of stumps of trees half burnt, or stripped of their bark, and still standing; while both houses and fields are enchased as it were in masses of forest, in which they are swallowed up, and diminish both in number and extent the farther you advance into the woods, till at length from the summits of the hills you perceive...
Página 47 - And hail'd the Rose, the boon of earth ! With nectar drops, a ruby tide, The sweetly orient buds they dyed. And bade them bloom, the flowers divine Of him who sheds the teeming vine ; And bade them on the spangled thorn Expand their bosoms to the morn.
Página 118 - ... in all the luxuries and elegancies of life ; such as those of Tyre and Sidon : for it appears from the course of the whole passage, and from the train of ideas, that the fortresses and the ships are to be taken metaphorically, as well as the high trees and the lofty mountains. Ships of Tarshish are in Scripture frequently used by a metonymy for ships in general, especially such as are employed in carrying on traffic between distant countries ; as Tarshish was the most celebrated mart of those...