 | Benjamin Smith Barton - Science - 1812 - 392 pages
...a repreientation of the cirrus, or tendril, see the plate of Passifiora incarnata, in thi» work. " fruits lie under the umbrage of a bower, made of their...resentment fly " Her fatty fibres, and with Tendrils creep r" Diverse, detesting contact." — Book 1. 1. 257 — 261. I SHALL afterwardsf nave occasion to observe,... | |
 | Benjamin Smith Barton - Science - 1812 - 390 pages
...some of the tendril-vegetables, as appears from the following lines in his poem, entitled CYDEH. -" The Gourd, " And thirsty Cucumber, when they perceive...Tendrils creep " Diverse, detesting contact." — Book 1. 1.*257 — 261. I SHALL afterwardsf have occasion to observe, that it is among some of the vegetables... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...near the fetid leek, (Crest of stout Britons), and enhances thence The price of her celestial scent. The gourd And thirsty cucumber, when they perceive...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact ; whilst the, jig Contemns not rue nor sage's humble leaf Close neighbouring. The Herefordian plant... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...near the fetid Leek, (Crest of stout Britons,) and enhances thence The price of her celestial scent : the Gourd, And thirsty Cucumber, when they perceive...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact ; whilst the Fig Contemns not Hue, nor Sage's humble leaf, Close-neighbouring: th' Herefordian plant... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Fruit - 1821 - 408 pages
...shrink from oil, and turn fairly away from it. The gourd And thirsty cucumber, when they perceive 'I'll' approaching olive, with resentment fly Her fatty fibres,...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact. . . . Phillips. 134 . •). CURRANT-TREE.— RIBES. In Botany, a Genus of the Pentandria Monogynia... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 298 pages
...enhances thence The price of her celestial scent. The gourd And thirsty cucumber when they perceive The' approaching olive, with resentment fly Her fatty fibres,...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact, whilst the fig Contemns not rue nor sage's humble leaf Close neighbouring. The' Herefordian plant Caresses... | |
 | John S. Skinner, Editor - 1823 - 448 pages
...in twentyfour hours as to touch it : but that it will shrink from oil, and turn fairly away from it. The gourd And thirsty cucumber, when they perceive...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact. Phillijit. CURX ANT-TREE.—RIBES. /« Botany, a Genus of the Pentandria Monogy nia Class. This agreeable... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...price of her celestial scent. The Gourd And thirsty Cucumber, when they perceive The approaching Olire, with resentment fly Her fatty fibres, and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact ; whilst the Fig Contemns not Hue nor Sage's humble leaf Close neighbouring. The Herefordian plant... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...near the fetid leek (Crest of stout Britons), and enhances thence The price of her celestial scent : the gourd And thirsty cucumber, when they perceive...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact ; whilst the fig Contemns not rue, nor sage's humble leaf, Close neighbouring: th' Herefordian plant... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...thence The price of her celestial scent : the Gourd, And thirsty Cucumber, when they perceive Til' lirouds and tackle torn ; Or in the emptier waste,...resembling air, Weighs his spread wings, at leisure to b ; whilst the Fig Contemns not Rue, nor Sage's humble leaf, Close-neighbouring: th' Herefordian plant... | |
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