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Page 153
... plants have done , and that upon just and worthy causes : for if delight may provoke mens labor , what greater delight is there than to behold the earth apparelled with plants , as with a robe of embroidered worke , set with Orient ...
... plants have done , and that upon just and worthy causes : for if delight may provoke mens labor , what greater delight is there than to behold the earth apparelled with plants , as with a robe of embroidered worke , set with Orient ...
Page 176
... plants and places I have made a kind of Liber Studiorum , charming sketches , I who cannot draw a line . Common plants are there as well , not of course as plants seen in any particular place , " But those that Plato saw , Ideas nam'd ...
... plants and places I have made a kind of Liber Studiorum , charming sketches , I who cannot draw a line . Common plants are there as well , not of course as plants seen in any particular place , " But those that Plato saw , Ideas nam'd ...
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... plants . ' In the language of the old herbalists , a " simple " was the general term for any herb or plant which was supposed to possess medicinal properties . According to the curious belief of the time , every plant in the Materia ...
... plants . ' In the language of the old herbalists , a " simple " was the general term for any herb or plant which was supposed to possess medicinal properties . According to the curious belief of the time , every plant in the Materia ...
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A. C. Swinburne Alexander Pope autumn beauty bees birds bloom blossoms botanic boughs breath called century charming colour cultivated daisies delight dial earth England English eyes famous favourite field fountains fruit Garden of Eden Gilbert White golden grass green groves grow H. A. L. Fisher happy hath hedge herbs J. B. S. Haldane John Evelyn labour lawn leaves less lilies live look Lord meadow motto nature never orchard Paradise perhaps physic garden pink plants pleasant pleasure poets Queen romance roses round scent season seed seen shade sing smell soil sort spring summer sweet Sylvia Townsend Warner thee things thou thought Timothy trees tulips unto vegetable verse violet W. H. Davies W. H. Hudson walk wall weeds wild flowers wilderness William William Shakespeare wind winter wood