twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one, To live in Paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new! Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run... The Retrospective Review - Página 1831825Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1840 - 372 páginas
...milder sun Does through the fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, th' industrious bee Computes his time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd but with herbs and flowers? AlHE, CoUJCTKSS OF WllfCHELSKA. 1730. GIVE me, oh indulgent Fate, Give me yet before I die,... | |
| Anne Pratt - 1840 - 448 páginas
...new ! Where, from above, the milder sun, Does through a fragrant Zodiac run, And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers?" In the " Encyclopaedia of Gardening," Mr. Loudon has given a... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...Two paradises are in one, To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gard'ncr drew Of flowers 'd I lit-) loose ecstacies, that she is plac'd Above...herself, music's enthusiast. Shame now and anger mix'da I¡< reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers ! [A Whimsical Salin on Holland.*] Holland, that scarce deserves... | |
| Sights - 1844 - 110 páginas
...dial new ! Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant Zodiac run, And as it works.'the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How...and wholesome hours Be reckon'd but with herbs and flowers !" Mrs. Hemans has recorded the fact in the following beautiful lines : — " 'Twas a lovely... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 páginas
...new ! Where, from above, the milder sun Doth through a fragrant zodiac run ; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers ? " Thomson's Marvell, Vol. III., p. 412. JOHN. If Milton had written... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 páginas
...new ! Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How...and wholesome hours Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers ?* The artificial fountains of the metropolis are, in like manner, fast vanishing. Most of... | |
| 1879 - 826 páginas
...new ! Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run ; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers ? " Very suggestive is this floral record of the flight of time.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...Two paradises are in one, To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gard'ner drew Of flowers the distance to be very great and very strange. But...springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, flower» i [A Whimtiau Satire m Holland.*'} Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...To lire in paradise alone. How well the skilful gard'ner drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new 1 ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence...With living sapphires ; Hesperus that led The starry rcckon'd, but with herbs and flowers 1 [A Whimtical Satire on Holland.*'} Holland, that scarce deserves... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...To lire in paradise alone. How well the skilful gard'ner drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new 1 rdon, when we hope to find, And think to burst out...praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ea flowers t [Л Wliimñcal Satire m Holland.*] olland, that scarce deserves the name of land, s but th'... | |
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