 | 1909 - Страниц: 378
...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... | |
 | Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1922 - Страниц: 900
...flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smell, so that you may walk by a whole row of them and find...nothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Observe, please, his use of the expression, " fast flowers of their smell " ! Since... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - Страниц: 868
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red,0 are fast0 flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of0 their sweetness; yea though it be in a morning's dew. Bays likewise yield no smell as they grow.... | |
 | Fred D. White - 2004 - Страниц: 246
...that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells (ie, that retain 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... | |
 | 1910 - Страниц: 860
...is conversant with all the secrets of a garden, knows that " roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells, so that you may walk by a whole row...their sweetness : yea, though it be in a morning dew." That "bays likewise yield which are very delightful to be set under a parlour or lower chamber window.... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - Страниц: 488
...and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast11 flowers of their smell ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find...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... | |
 | 1882 - Страниц: 460
...that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells, so that one may walk by a whole row of them and find nothing of their sweetness ; yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell, 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.... 
