| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names, Telling their strange and vigorous faculties : Among the rest a small unsightly root, But of divine effect, he cull'd me out: 630 The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said,... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...only •dition I have by me, viz. thai published under the inspection of the ingenious Mr. Fenton. ' The leaf was darkish and had prickles on it, ' But in another country, as he said, 4 Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil; • Unknown and like esteem'd.' I have often observed... | |
| English drama - 1811 - 620 pages
...morning ray, Has shewn me simples of a thousand names, Telling their strange and vigorous faculties. Among the rest a small unsightly root, But of divine effect, he cull'd me out, And bade me keep it as of sovereign use 'Gainst all enchantment, mildew, blast, or damp,... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 622 pages
...strange and vigorous faculties ; Amongst the rest a small unsightly root, But of divine effect, he cull'd me out ; The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, 6"5O Bore a bright golden flow'r but not in this soil : Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 pages
...strange and vigorous faculties ; Amongst the rest a small unsightly root, But of divine effect, he cull'd me out ; The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, 6,50 Bore a bright golden flow'r but not in this soil : Unknown, and like esteena'd, and the dull swain... | |
| Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 354 pages
...strange and vigorous faculties ; Amongst the rest a small unsightly root, But of divine effect, he cull'd me out ; The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But \n another country, as he said, 650 Bore a bright golden flow'r but not in this soil : Unknown, and... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...leathern scrip, And shew me simples of a thousand names, Telling their strange and vigorous faculties : ȑ /h /` / cull'd me out; The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore... | |
| Henry Nelson Coleridge - Greek poetry - 1830 - 262 pages
...not found in the Odyssey. Amongst the rest a small unsightly root, But of divine effect, he cull'd me out ; The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bare a bright golden flower, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1896 - 600 pages
...shepherd lad, well skilled in every vertuous plant and healing herb ' ; it had ' a small unsightly root, The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another countrey, as he said, Bore a bright golden flowre, but not in this soyl ; He called it Hsemony.' We... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...vigorous faculties: Amongst the rest a small unsightly root, But of divine effect, he cull'd me oat; 630 weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the Bure a bright golden flower, but not in this soil : Unknown, and light estecm'd, and the dull swain... | |
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