| 1848 - 634 páginas
...pools — a virgin of most exquisite beauty and unnvalle« charms. The plant is always filed in some turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained toa rock in the sea, which hnlhed her feet, as the fresh water does the root of the plant. As the distressed... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 992 páginas
...also applicable to the plant, now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps,...roots of the plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode of her vegetable prototype, and, when... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1898 - 962 páginas
...This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andró meda herself was chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed...roots of the plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode of lier vegetable prototype, and, when... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 564 páginas
...poets — a virgin of most exquisite beauty and unrivalled charms. The plant is always fixed in some turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda...which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the root of the plant. As the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction,... | |
| Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 páginas
...Higginson: "This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, just as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed her feet as the fresh water does this plant ... As the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction, so... | |
| H. Peter Loewer - 1996 - 476 páginas
...Linnaeus wrote, "This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, just as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the...bathed her feet as the fresh water does the roots of this plant." In February 1854, the foliage of the bog rosemary still struck Thoreau's fancy. The handsome... | |
| 1848 - 640 páginas
...poets— a virein of most exquisite heauty and unrivalled charms. The plant is always fixed in some turfjr hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the sea, which hathed her feet, as the fresh water does the root of the plant. A* the distressed virgin cost down... | |
| 1848 - 636 páginas
...The plant is always used in some turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, ns Andnmirdu herself \vas chained to a rock in the sea, which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the rool of the plant. As the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction,... | |
| 1881 - 510 páginas
...could scarcely have contrived a more apposite able. This plant is always fixed on some little urfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in lie sea, which bathed her feet as the fresh A-ater does the roots of the plant. Dragons nd venomous... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1907 - 930 páginas
...by them as a virgin of most exquisite and unrivalled charms. . . . This plant is always fixed onsome little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to the rock in the sea, which bathed her feet as the fresh water does the roots of the plant. Dragons... | |
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