Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 24John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1851 - American periodicals |
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... never master of any con- siderable garden , had not attempted this subject . But the earth is the garden of nature , and each fruitful country a Paradise . ” — Garden of Cyrus . All the world are piλoßoravo , as John Ray expresses it in ...
... never master of any con- siderable garden , had not attempted this subject . But the earth is the garden of nature , and each fruitful country a Paradise . ” — Garden of Cyrus . All the world are piλoßoravo , as John Ray expresses it in ...
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... never look brighter and more cheerful than in an open winter . An avenue of standard Portugal laurels - like those at Trentham , though on a modest scale - con- duct us to a flight of stone steps . A glass door admits us to a ...
... never look brighter and more cheerful than in an open winter . An avenue of standard Portugal laurels - like those at Trentham , though on a modest scale - con- duct us to a flight of stone steps . A glass door admits us to a ...
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... never yet known to be edible for dinner . Napoleon was in his golden prime . Fox and Pitt were the leaders of the two great parties of English- men . Radicals were desperately situated in those days ; spies were crawling about ...
... never yet known to be edible for dinner . Napoleon was in his golden prime . Fox and Pitt were the leaders of the two great parties of English- men . Radicals were desperately situated in those days ; spies were crawling about ...
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... never confidently adopted any views , in sup- port of which sound reasons or carefully ob- tained experimental results could not be ad - stomach , is to administer an antidote of more duced , was admirably fitted for basing the ...
... never confidently adopted any views , in sup- port of which sound reasons or carefully ob- tained experimental results could not be ad - stomach , is to administer an antidote of more duced , was admirably fitted for basing the ...
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... never been denied . The page of history , in the fatal meeting between Buckingham and Shrewsbury , strikingly exemplifies the for- mer assertion . For the seduction of his wife Buckingham , by the way , had seduced his own - the injured ...
... never been denied . The page of history , in the fatal meeting between Buckingham and Shrewsbury , strikingly exemplifies the for- mer assertion . For the seduction of his wife Buckingham , by the way , had seduced his own - the injured ...
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Page 29 - A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed. 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 31 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 29 - 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 288 - Full fain it would delay me! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beside his ear, His little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen!
Page 361 - This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Page 450 - Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench...
Page 290 - And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But now I find, how dear thou wert to me ; That man is more than half of nature's treasure, Of that fair Beauty which no eye can see, Of that sweet music which no ear can measure ; And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity.
Page 271 - Oh, what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame, I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart : I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.
Page 288 - THOU ! whose fancies from afar are brought ; Who of thy words dost make a mock apparel, And fittest to unutterable thought The breeze-like motion and the self-born carol ; Thou faery voyager ! that dost float In such clear water, that thy boat May rather seem To brood on air than on an earthly stream ; Suspended in a stream as clear as sky, Where earth and heaven do make one imagery ; 0 blessed vision ! happy child ! Thou art so exquisitely wild, 1 think of thee with many...
Page 202 - Humanity has often wept over the fate of the aborigines of this country, and philanthropy has been long busily employed in devising means to avert it. But its progress has never for a moment been arrested ; and, one by one, have many powerful tribes disappeared from the earth.