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Página 13 - The Maypole on the margin of that poetic stream completed the illusion. My fancy adorned it with wreaths of flowers, and peopled the green bank with all the dancing revelry of May-day. The mere sight of this May-pole gave a glow to my feelings, and spread a charm over the country for the rest of the day ; and as I traversed a part of the fair plain of Cheshire, and the beautiful borders of Wales, and looked from among swelling hills down a long green valley, through which "the Deva wound its wizard...
Página 45 - Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed.
Página 13 - I shall never forget the delight I felt on first seeing a Maypole. It was on the banks of the Dee, close by the picturesque old bridge that stretches across the river from the quaint little city of Chester. I had already been carried back into former days, by the antiquities of that venerable place ; the examination of which is equal to turning over the pages of a black-letter volume, or gazing on the pictures in Froissart. The Maypole on the margin of that poetic stream completed the illusion. My...
Página 42 - mid a grove Of yet unfaded trees she lifts her head Decked with autumnal berries, that outshine Spring's richest blossoms...
Página 30 - Ecce cruor, qui fusus humi signaverat herbam , Desinit esse cruor; Tyrioque nitentior ostro Flos oritur; formamque capit , quam lilia , si non Purpureus color huic, argenteus esset in illis.
Página 30 - ... sanguine flower, the hyacinth, sprung from the blood of the youth of that name, accidentally slain by Apollo. See Milton's Death of a. Fair Infant, st. 4 : also Ovid, Met., X. 162, et seq., where we have the lines " Ipse suos gemitus foliis inscribit; et, ai, ai, Flos habet inscriptum." Apollo himself inscribes his own lamentations on the leaves, and the flower has ai, ai (alas, alas !) written thereon.
Página 43 - It is a native of Asia, and was introduced into Europe about the middle of the sixteenth century.
Página 50 - Bot. t. 2197) ; and several other wild or cultivated varieties have been proposed as species, but the great facility with which fertile cross-breeds are produced, gives reason to suspect that the whole genus, including even the Chilian Pine Strawberry, may prove to consist but of one species.

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