The Shakespeare Flora: A Guide to All the Principal Passages in which Mention is Made of Trees, Plants, Flowers, and Vegetable ProductionsPalmer & Howe, 1883 - 318 pages |
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... England can never be seen again . Many of the trees now so common in England that they seem indigenous , the birch for example , and the Lombardy poplar , had not been introduced ; and even the sycamore and the Norway spruce were known ...
... England can never be seen again . Many of the trees now so common in England that they seem indigenous , the birch for example , and the Lombardy poplar , had not been introduced ; and even the sycamore and the Norway spruce were known ...
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... England's oak . Turn now to the poësy proper . In the sunshine of high summer , The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind , And make a chequer'd shadow on the ground . Titus Andronicus , ii . , 3 . Then we are asked to note how ...
... England's oak . Turn now to the poësy proper . In the sunshine of high summer , The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind , And make a chequer'd shadow on the ground . Titus Andronicus , ii . , 3 . Then we are asked to note how ...
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... England , this proud title is rightfully accorded to the oak - the majestic Quereus Robur which in associations as well . as figure and attributes , owns no rival . Many circum- stances contribute to the supremacy . The dimensions ...
... England , this proud title is rightfully accorded to the oak - the majestic Quereus Robur which in associations as well . as figure and attributes , owns no rival . Many circum- stances contribute to the supremacy . The dimensions ...
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... England any tree that presents so wonderful a diversity of leaf - outline , or a richer variety of summer tint . The autumnal hue is scarcely exceeded even by the beech and the elm ; and when these beautiful leaves , their tasks ...
... England any tree that presents so wonderful a diversity of leaf - outline , or a richer variety of summer tint . The autumnal hue is scarcely exceeded even by the beech and the elm ; and when these beautiful leaves , their tasks ...
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... England arrived only during the reign of Charles I. Few of the modern favourites have been known more than a century , if so long . Wreaths made of these glossy flowers waited for the rites of three hundred years later , or , instead of ...
... England arrived only during the reign of Charles I. Few of the modern favourites have been known more than a century , if so long . Wreaths made of these glossy flowers waited for the rites of three hundred years later , or , instead of ...
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1st Henry 2nd Henry allusions ancient Antony and Cleopatra appears appellation Beatrice beautiful bloom botanical botanists boughs called chaplet charming Chaucer colour cowslip Cymbeline daisy delight denoting doth Elizabethan age emblem England English epithet eyes fairies famous flowers fruit garden give golden green grow Hamlet harebell hath hawthorn heart Henry the Fourth Henry the Sixth herbs honour instance intended kind Lear leaves lily look Love's Labour's Lost Lyte meadows means mentioned Merry Wives metaphor Midsummer Night's Dream nature nettles never occasions occurs Ophelia original Othello oxlip passage Perdita plant play poetry poets pretty primrose queen reference Romeo and Juliet rose says scene sense Shak Shakspere Shakspere's Shaksperean age song species strew sweet Tempest thee thou Titania Titus Andronicus to-day tree Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Venus and Adonis Viola violet weeds whence wild wild-flower willow Winter's Tale wood woodbine word
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Page 19 - Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you : I thought, that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment : But whate'er you are, That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time...
Page 234 - Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, -. With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes...
Page 95 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 18 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 19 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and...
Page 187 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 56 - Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet! how lovely! Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth.
Page 253 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 231 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 97 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.