 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 416 pages
...dusk anana's prickly spade, * MACAULAY'S Critical and Mi-sccilanemti Бггщг, iii. 141, 142. er While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel...shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod. " t Wheat, barley, and oats, with noble forests of teak and oak, flourish on the cool slopes of the... | |
 | 1854 - 562 pages
...Ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. — HEBEE. THE bad repute of Batavia for fever arises from three causes. Imprimis, the excessive heat... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1854 - 412 pages
...jTbe betel waves his crest-in-air ; Ivlfh pendant train, and rushing wings, Aldft -€he gorgeotfs -peacock: -springs ; And he, the bird of hundred 'dyes, "Whose plumes the daraes of-Ava. prize-- So rich a shade, so.green a sod, Our English fairies never trod. " f "Wheat,... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1858 - 430 pages
...Cciba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he the bird of hundred dyes,*... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1837 - 806 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plaintain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; iment all red ? And wherefore do your rout send forth...evil was the root, and bitter was the fruit, And Whoso plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...Ceiba's crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly glade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he the bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Pictorial geographical reader - 1882 - 264 pages
...ceiba's crimson pomp displayed O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the 4bird of hundred dyes,... | |
 | Phil Robinson - 1883 - 540 pages
...within them, They bore their owners by such sweet enchantment. — Montgomery : Pelican Island. (6) The bird of hundred dyes, Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. — Heber: Walk in Bengal. (7) Hail, bird of paradise I That name I bear, Though I am nothing but a... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1885 - 370 pages
...prickly glade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair The betel waves his crest in air. With pendent train and rushing wings Aloft the gorgeous peacock...shade, so green a sod, Our English fairies never trod ! Yet who in Indian bowers has stood, But thought on England's " good greenwood !" And bless'd, beneath... | |
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O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air. With pendant train and rushing wings, Aloft the gorgeous peacock springs ; And he, the bird of hundred dyes,... 
