Flowers; their moral, language, and poetry, ed. by H.G. AdamsHenry Gardiner Adams 1844 |
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... A thousand sanctities do them invest , And bright associations hallow them ! Which to the cultivated intellect May give delight , and all the heart improve . " The Editor has chosen out the quotations which enrich this viii . PREFACE.
... A thousand sanctities do them invest , And bright associations hallow them ! Which to the cultivated intellect May give delight , and all the heart improve . " The Editor has chosen out the quotations which enrich this viii . PREFACE.
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... hearts to understand and appreciate the blessings that are scattered around us , for , as KEATS says : - " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A ...
... hearts to understand and appreciate the blessings that are scattered around us , for , as KEATS says : - " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A ...
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... hearts utterly corrupted , and rendered impervious to every sweet and gentle impression ; and even such will at times feel stir- ring within them at the sight , thoughts that have long slumbered , and awakened by those " silent monitors ...
... hearts utterly corrupted , and rendered impervious to every sweet and gentle impression ; and even such will at times feel stir- ring within them at the sight , thoughts that have long slumbered , and awakened by those " silent monitors ...
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... heart once again A dream of happier infancy ; And even on the grave can be A spell to weed affection's pain- Children of Eden , who could see , Nor own His bounty in your reign ! " — ANNETTE TURNER . Yes ! silent monitors though they be ...
... heart once again A dream of happier infancy ; And even on the grave can be A spell to weed affection's pain- Children of Eden , who could see , Nor own His bounty in your reign ! " — ANNETTE TURNER . Yes ! silent monitors though they be ...
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... heart in every hour To pleasant gratitude . " - WORDSWORTH . It is only in contemplations such as these , that we can hope to obtain true happiness ; the feverish joys of the world are short - lived and unsatisfactory ; like gilded ...
... heart in every hour To pleasant gratitude . " - WORDSWORTH . It is only in contemplations such as these , that we can hope to obtain true happiness ; the feverish joys of the world are short - lived and unsatisfactory ; like gilded ...
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Page 21 - I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran ; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
Page 121 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 248 - SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun.
Page 85 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes!
Page 229 - With fairest flowers, 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 azured hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 132 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch when owls do cry, On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily: Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 47 - Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity ; besides that written one of God, another of His servant nature, that universal and public manuscript, that lies expansed unto the eyes of all...
Page 246 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
Page 238 - Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand ; And one keen pyramid with wedge sublime, Pavilioning the dust of him who planned This refuge for his memory, doth stand Like flame transformed to marble ; and beneath, A field is spread, on which a newer band Have pitched in Heaven's smile their camp of death Welcoming...
Page 237 - Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation's nakedness Pass, till the spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread...