 | Languages, Modern - 1887 - 994 pages
...and plants that do but perfume the air. Roses damask ajid red are flowers tenacious of their smclls, so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find iiothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a morning dew. Bays likewise yield no sniell äs... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, Jamask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row 15* of them, and fmd nothing of their sweetness ; yea, though it be in a morning's de .7. Bays, likewise,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...what be the flowm and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole...nothing of their sweetness : yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays likewise yield no smell, at they grow ; rosemary, little ; nor sweet marjoram.... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Analogy (Religion) - 1852 - 478 pages
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole...nothing of their sweetness ; yea, though it be in a morning's dew. That which, above all others yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet, especially... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...and Plants, that do beft perfume the Air. Rofes Damafk and Red, are faft Flowers of their Smells ; fo that ; you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their Sweetnefs ; yea though it be, in a Morning's Dew. Bays likewife yield no Smell, as they grow. Rofemary... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row...nothing of their sweetness : yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram ; that... | |
 | Frederic William Shelton - 1853 - 376 pages
...know what be the flowers and plants that best perfume the air. Roses damask and red are/as£ flowers of their smells, so that you may walk by a whole row...them and find nothing of their sweetness ; yea though they be wet with a morning's dew. Those which yield the sweetest smell are the strawberry leaves when... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers her morning's dew. Bays likewise yield no smell, as they grow ; rosemary, little ; nor sweet marjoram.... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells, so that you may walk by a whole row...nothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow ; rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram ;... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells, so that you may walk by a whole row...nothing of their sweetness ; yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow ; rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram ;... | |
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And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.... 
