 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 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... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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 physie,... | |
 | William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 324 pages
...well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. 1 1 Herbs too, she knew, and well of each could speak, That in her garden sipp'd the silvery dew, Where no vain flower disclosed a gaudy streak, But herbs for use, and physick,... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1855 - 304 pages
...the weight of their luscious fruit, and luxuriantly-blooming roses. 7* V. f ciunger Jfcars of a flaut "Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak, That in her garden sipped the silv'ry dew." SHENSTONE'S " School-Mistress." "TT7"E all know — thanks to the word of inspiration... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 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 few, Of grey renown, within those borders grew ; The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme, Fresh baum, and marygold... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. [sprak, Herbs, too, she knew, and well of each could d distant mountains, where they feed their floeks,...leave their hemely huts, And with their pipes proelaim Fresh bäum, and marygold of cheerful hue ; The lowly gill, that never dares to climb ; And more I... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silv'ry dew ; Where no vain flow'r disclos'da gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic, not...borders grew : The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme, Fresh balm, and mary-gold of cheerful hue; The lowly gill, that never dares to climb ; And more I fain... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. [speak, Herbs, too, she know, and well of each could pany physio not a few, Of gray renown, within those borders grew ; The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme,... | |
 | 1856 - 482 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 physio... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 524 pages
...lavenders, the mints, the thymes, and the hyssops belong, with basil, rosemary, and marjorum, — all plants of " gray renown," as Shenstone happily remarks...hue. »**##*» " And marjorum sweet in shepherd's posio found, And lavender, whose spikes of azure bloom Shall be crcwhile in arid bundles bound, To... | |
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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. 
