 | 1806 - 408 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak, That in her garden sipp'd the silv'ry dew; Where no vain rlow'r disclos'da gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | William Shenstone, Thomas Park - 1808 - 342 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silvery dew, Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak, But herbs for use and physic,... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sip'd the silvery dew ; Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crum she found. Herbs, too, she knew, and well of each could speak, That in her garden sipp'd the silv'ry dew, Where no vain flow'r disclos'da gandy streak, But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...veil she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sippM the silvery dew ; Where no vain flower disclos'da gawdy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...never title yet so mean could prove, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumh she found. Herhs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silvery dew; Where no vain flower disclos'da gawdy streak; But herhs for use, and physie,... | |
 | 1823 - 328 pages
...additions she did bear. The worthy Lady Bountiful of the village, she understood some little of pharmacy: Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silvery dew ; and though no Puritan, she sometimes administered real Christian advice and... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...nature, and transferred to those more humble, but not less interesting productions, herbs and plants. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That...streak; But herbs for use, and physic, not a few, Of grey renown, within those borders grew: The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme, Fresh liuum, and marigold... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 386 pages
...well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silvery dew, Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak, But herbs for use and physic, not a...borders grew ; The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme, Fresh baum, and marygold of cheerful hue, The lowly gill, that never dares to climb, And more 1 fain... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 418 pages
...same; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sip'd the silvery dew ; Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physick,... | |
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Neglect had lavished on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. 
