| Charles McIntosh - 1839 - 528 pages
...much better than the latter fruit. The author of " The Seasons" has thus described this fruit : — As I steal along the sunny wall, Where autumn basks...plum, The ruddy, fragrant nectarine, and, dark Beneath bis ample leaf, the luscious fig." SELECT LIST OF NECTARINES. l. Fairchild's Early. — Originated... | |
| James Thomson - 1840 - 174 pages
...the book Of Nature ever open j aiming thence, 670 Warm from the heart, to learn the moral song. Here, as I steal along the sunny wall, Where Autumn basks,...empurpled deep, My pleasing theme continual prompts iny thought ; Presents the downy peach ; the shining plum ; 675 The ruddy, fragrant nectarine ; and... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...meditate the book Of Nature ever open : aiming thence, Warm from the heart, to learn the moral song. Here, ), insulting foe. ! Thon by some other ehalt bo laid...flamee — but burn alive.1' " Restore the Lock," vine, too, here her curling tendrils sltooM s Hangs out her clusters, glowing to the south , And scarcely... | |
| James Thomson - 1841 - 352 pages
...the book Of Nature, ever open ; aiming thence, Warm from the heart, to learn the moral song ; And, as I steal along the sunny wall, Where Autumn basks,...thought : Presents the downy peach ; the shining plum, With a fine bluish mist of animals Clouded ; the ruddy nectarine ; and dark, Beneath his ample leaf,... | |
| 1841 - 272 pages
...back of the leaves is very remarkable. The fruit garden is now in its full beauty : The sunny wall Presents the downy peach, the shining plum, The ruddy...and dark Beneath his ample leaf, the luscious fig. Most of these luxuries are now in their prime, just ready to-be plucked, and not over-ripe and decaying.... | |
| 1841 - 780 pages
...sketches himself very pleasantly in "Autumn" (v. 677) :— " Here, as I steal along the sunny »'all, Where autumn basks, with fruit empurpled deep, My...theme continual prompts my thought : Presents the downv peach ; the shining plum ; The ruddy, fragrant nectarine ; and dark, Beneath his ample leaf,... | |
| James Thomson - 1842 - 440 pages
...wall, Where Autumn hasks, with fruit empurpled deep, My pleasing theme continual prompts my thought t Presents the downy peach; the shining plum: The ruddy,...dark, Beneath his ample leaf, the luscious fig. The vine too here her curling tendrils shoot; Hangs out her clusters, glowing to the south; And scarcely... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...the- book Of Nature ever open : aiming thence, Worm from the heart, to learn the moral song. Here, n ncctarine; and dark, Beneath his ample leaf, the luscious fig. The vine, too, here her curling tendrils... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...N— — • Of Nature ever open : aiming thence, Warm from the heart, to learn the moral song. Here, e me out of date. Could Ihc downy peach ; the shining plum ; The ruddy, fragrant nectarine ; and dark, Beneath his ample leaf,... | |
| James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...book 670 Of Nature, ever open — aiming thence, Warm from the heart, to learn the moral song. And, as I steal along the sunny wall, Where Autumn basks,...thought : Presents the downy peach * ; the shining plum f, 676 and some other domestic calamities, the world is indebted for the " Night Thoughts : " a poem... | |
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