A Flora of Leicestershire. ... By M. Kirby. With Notes by Her Sister [S. Kirby, Afterwards Haddon].1850 - 12 pages |
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acre Ansty lane arvensis Ashby Wolds Ashby-de-la-Zouch Aylestone Bardon hill Beacon hill bogs Bradgate Braunstone Breedon Cloud wood Buddon wood Cadeby called calyx canal carex cattle Charnwood forest Coleorton common Congerstone cornfields Croft cuspidate ditches eaten employed flowers gardens Garendon Glenfield Gopsal Gracedieu grass green Groby pool growing hairs hairy heath hedges Humberstone juice Kirby Muxloe Knipton leaves 5-nate Leicester Abbey Leicestershire LINNEAN CLASS Loughborough Lount Market Bosworth marsh meadow Moira reservoir Muston Netherseal officinalis orchis ORDER Outwoods palustris panicle park pastures plant plantations Pocket gate poisonous ponds pratensis prickles rare resembling river Soar road roots Seal wood seeds setæ Sheepshed South wood species Stathern Staunton Harold Sutton Cheney Swithland sylvatica thistle Thringstone Thurcaston tree Twycross Ulverscroft uncommon Vale of Belvoir variety vulgaris walls Whitwick wild Willesley yellow yields Zouch
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Page 72 - One spirit — His, Who wore the platted thorns with bleeding brows, Rules universal nature. Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, Of his unrivalled pencil, He' inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes, In grains as countless as the sea-side sands, The forms, with which he sprinkles all the earth.
Page xi - Neath cloistered boughs each floral bell that swingeth And tolls its perfume on the passing air Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer...
Page 35 - ... a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page xi - Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit, every leaf a book, Supplying to my fancy numerous teachers From loneliest nook. Floral apostles, that, in dewy splendor, " Weep without woe, and blush without a crime," O, may I deeply learn, and ne'er surrender, Your lore sublime.
Page 25 - Her tides have equal times to come and go; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web; No joy so great but runneth to an end, No hap so hard but may in fine amend.
Page 89 - Indeed, the outward ornament is fit to take fools, but they are not worth the taking ; but she that hath a wise husband, must entice him to an eternal dearness by the veil of modesty and the grave robes of chastity, the ornament of meekness, and the jewels of faith and charity ; she must have no...
Page 171 - May Durva, which rose from the water of life, which has a hundred roots and a hundred stems, efface a hundred of my sins, and prolong my existence on earth for a hundred years!
Page 25 - Time goes by turns, and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse. The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow ; She draws her favours to the lowest ebb ; Her tides have equal times to come and go; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web...
Page 19 - The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical or composed of letters, but of their several forms, constitutions, parts, and operations; which aptly joined together do make one word that doth express their natures.
Page 12 - Look at this delicate plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves all point to the north, as true as the magnet ; It is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has...