| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1894 - 478 pages
...come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim, Bat sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath...primroses That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phcebus in his strength ; bold oxlipi and The crown-imperial. Far be it from me even to suggest that... | |
| Edward Jesse - Animal behavior - 1832 - 340 pages
...after a long continuance of frost and snow. ' Daffodils, ' That come before the swallow dares, and take ' The winds of March with beauty, violets dim,...the lids of Juno's eyes, ' Or Cytherea's breath.' Insects seem to leave their retreats and burst all at once into life. Insignificant as they may appear... | |
| John Docwra Parry - Sussex (England) - 1833 - 492 pages
...that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim,...than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath." WINTER'S TALE. " Sidcrum sacros imitata vultus, Quid lates dudum Rosa? delicatum Effer e terris caput,... | |
| 1835 - 428 pages
...SHITUftUN, 1YY LANE, PATERNOSTEtt-ROW " Oh Proserpina ! For the Flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon ! Daffodils That come before...Primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phcebus in his strength ; bold Ozlips and The Crown Imperial ; Lilies of all kinds. The Flower-de-Luce... | |
| 1835 - 428 pages
...FATIRN09TEK-BOW " Oh Proserpina ! For the Flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From 1 HS'N wagon ! Daffodils That come before the Swallow dares,...Primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength ; bold Oxlips and The Crown Imperial ; Lilies of all kinds, The Flower-de-Luce... | |
| George Field - Color - 1835 - 310 pages
...succeed flowers of pale yellow and orange hues : — Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim,...ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength. SHAKSPEARE. Then follows, in fullest glow, the season of reds and of roses : — When Nature, prodigal... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 382 pages
...that frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim....his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold tulips, and The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds. The flower-de-luce being one ! O these I lack,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...branches yet Your maidenheads growing. — O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon ! daffodils, That come before...eyes, Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried,2 ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold... | |
| Mrs. Charles Meredith - Botanical illustration - 1836 - 400 pages
...that, frighted, tliou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! Daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty. Violets, dim,...primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phcebus in his strength; a malady Most incident to maids. Bold oxlips, and The crown-imperial ; lilies... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in art - 1837 - 400 pages
...that frighted, thou lel'st fall From Dis's wagon ! daffodils, That com 3 before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty — violets dim,...his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold Oilips, and The crown imperial ; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack... | |
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