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It is doubtful whether this be an Equisetum or not; the textures of the leaves agree best with that genus of any, being articulated one within another at each joint, which is only proper to this tribe. The longest of them are about 9 inches. Colutea Novae Hollandiae floribus amplis coccineis, umbellatim dispositis macula purpurea notatis.
Over the picture of this maid, set in front of the Dutch copy, stand these Latin verses: "Meursæ hæc quam cernis decies ter, sexque peregit, Annos, bis septem prorsus non viscitur annis Nec potat, sic sola sedet, sic pallida vitam Ducit, et exigui se oblectat floribus horti."
"Agricolae prisci, fortes, parvoque beati, Condita post frumenta, levantes tempore festo Corpus, et ipsum animum spe finis dura ferentem, Cum sociis operum, et pueris, et conjuge fida, Tellurem porco, Silvanum lacte piabant; Floribus et vino Genium memorem brevis aevi. Fescennina per hunc inventa licentia morem Versibus alternis opprobria rustica fudit."
He concludes thus: 'I am pretty well satisfied that the flower celebrated by the poets is what we now are acquainted with under the name 'Lilium floribus reflexis, or Martagon, and perhaps may be that very species which we call Imperial Martagon. 'As the blue bells Of hyacinth tell Apollo's written grief. Amid the faint companions of their youth.
One can say of it as Horace said of his favourite Spring: O, fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro. Dulce digne mero, non sine floribus.
"But it is strange," interrupted the lady, "that only one out of his five daughters is engaged. If the young ladies in Copenhagen do not go off better than that, what shall we say here?" "Now Mr. Thostrup can take one of them," said the husband. "There is money, and you have fortune also; if you get an office, you can live in floribus!"
I doubt whether these sallies of raillery these flowers of Billingsgate are calculated to soothe, any more than to adorn; whether, on some occasion or other, we may not find that those on whom they are lavished have not been utterly unsusceptible of feelings of irritation and resentment: Medio de fonte leporum Surget amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.
Eheu! quid volui miscro mihi! floribus anstrum Perditus The words are Virgil's, but the appropriation of them, and their application in this "second intention" is too exquisite to have been made by any but Milton.To the poems of the Horton period belong also the two pieces L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, and Lycidas.
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