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| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...: but my meaning is perceived, that you may have "ver perpetunm," as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, (where...is more fit for that delight, than to know what be ' e flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Hoses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...breath of flowers is farre sweeter in the aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling of musicke) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for...delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants which . doe best perfume the aire." I always envy what Cowper calls " the occupations of a retired... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...breath of flowers is farre sweeter in the aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling ofmusicke) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for...delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants which doe best perfume the aire." I always envy what Cowper calls " the occupations of a retired gentleman... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1824 - 670 pages
...perceive another proof of it, for, to use once more the language of our great contemporary, ' because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where...goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand,'* you have taken care, I see, to select all those flowers and plants that do best perfume its breezes."... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1824 - 344 pages
...perceive another proof of it, for, to use once more the language of our great contemporary, ' because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where...goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand,'* you have taken care, I see, to select all those flowers and plants that do best perfume its breezes."... | |
| Nathan Drake (M.D.) - 1824 - 656 pages
...perceive another proof of it, for, to use once more the language of our great contemporary, * because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where...goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand,'* you have taken care, I see, to select all those flowers and plants that do best perfume its breezes."... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1824 - 658 pages
...perceive another proof of it, for, to use once more the language of our great contemporary, ' because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where...goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand,'* you have taken care, I see, to select all those flowers and plants that do best perfume its breezes."... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...London : but my meaning is perceived, that you may have ver perpetuum, as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where...and goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand,therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that... | |
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