Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
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He invariably refers to the sweet violet - Viola odorata“ Violets dim , But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eye , Or Cytherea's breath . ” 1 How accurately he describes the fleeting nature of their exquisite scent :“ Sweet , not lasting ...
He invariably refers to the sweet violet - Viola odorata“ Violets dim , But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eye , Or Cytherea's breath . ” 1 How accurately he describes the fleeting nature of their exquisite scent :“ Sweet , not lasting ...
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Sweetest of all violet scents is that of the white violet , a fact pointed out three centuries ago , by that great connoisseur of scents — Lord Bacon . Was it to white violets that Laertes referred when he bade them lay his sister in ...
Sweetest of all violet scents is that of the white violet , a fact pointed out three centuries ago , by that great connoisseur of scents — Lord Bacon . Was it to white violets that Laertes referred when he bade them lay his sister in ...
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But the loveliest passage about violets is surely that in Twelfth Night : “ That strain again . It had a dying fall ; O it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bed of Violets , Stealing and giving odour .
But the loveliest passage about violets is surely that in Twelfth Night : “ That strain again . It had a dying fall ; O it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bed of Violets , Stealing and giving odour .
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| Title | Shakespeare's Wild Flowers: Fairy Lore, Gardens, Herbs, Gatherers of Simples and Bee Lore |
| Author | Eleanour Sinclair Rohde |
| Publisher | Medici society, Limited, 1935 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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