 | Benjamin Smith Barton - Botany - 1803 - 630 pages
..." Alarm'd she trembles at the moving shade ; " And feels alive, through all her tender form, 4"» " The whisper'd murmurs of the gathering storm ; " Shuts...sweet eye-lids to approaching night, " And hails with freshen'd charms the rising light. ** Veil'd, with gay decency and modest pride, " Slow to the mosque... | |
 | Bernard M'Mahon - Gardening - 1806 - 686 pages
...DARWIN. " Weak with nice sense the chaste Mimosa stands, From each rude touch withdraws her tender hands ; Oft as light clouds o'erpass the summer glade,...sweet eye-lids to approaching night ; And hails with freshen'd charms the rising light." " Naturalists," says Dr. Darwin, " have not explained the immediate... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...that some of the descriptions, taken separately, are exquisitely beautiful : witness the following ; " Weak with nice sense, the chaste Mimosa stands, From...sweet eye-lids to approaching night; And hails with ireshen'd charms the rising light. Veil'd with gay decency and modest pride, Slow to the mosque she... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...Oft as light clouds <>Vq>:iss the summer glade, Alarm'd she trembles at the moving shade ; And feela alive through all her tender form, The whisper'd murmurs...sweet eyelids to approaching night, And hails with freshen'd charms the rising light." MIMULUS, in botany, Monkey fiowtr, a genus of the Didynamia Angiospermia... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 734 pages
...trembles at the moving shade ; Aud feels alive through all her tender form, The whisper'd murmurs of Die gathering storm ; Shuts her sweet eyelids to approaching night, And hails with freshen'd charms the rising light." MIMULUS, in botany* Monkey flower, a genus of the Didynamia Angiospermia... | |
 | 1811 - 392 pages
...sie trembles at the moving shad* • " And feels, alive through all her tender form, "The wbisper'd murmurs of the gathering storm ; "Shuts her sweet eye-lids to approaching night ; " And hails, with freshened charms, the rising light." This shifting or moving quality of the leaves, so elegantly expressed... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1815 - 498 pages
...each rude touch withdraws her timid hands ; Oft as light clouds o'erpass the summer glade, Alarin.d she trembles at the moving shade; And feels, alive,...sweet eye-lids to approaching night ; And hails with freshen'd charms the rising light. Veil'd with gay decency and modest pride, Slow to the mosque she... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...Alarmed she trembles at the moving shade; And feels alive through all her tender form, The whispered murmurs of the gathering storm ; Shuts her sweet eyelids to approaching night, And hails with freshened charms the rising light. Veiled, with gay decency and modest pride; Slow to the mosque she... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...of the plant to the light as well as to the air." Dr. Darwin has thus characterized these plants. " Weak with nice sense the chaste Mimosa stands, From...sweet eyelids to approaching night, , And hails with freshen'd. charms the rising light." MIMULUS, in botany, Monkey Jlo'jjer, a genus of the Didinaiviia... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1824 - 246 pages
...rude touch withdraws her timid hands ; ZOO Oft as light clouds o'erpass the summer-glade, Alarm 'd she trembles at the moving shade ; And feels, alive...gathering storm ; Shuts her sweet eye-lids to approaching pight, And hails with frcshen'd charms the rising light. Mimosa. 1. 299. The sensitive plant. Of the... | |
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Weak with nice sense, the chaste MIMOSA stands, From each rude touch withdraws her timid hands; Oft as light clouds o'erpass the Summer-glade, Alarmed she trembles at the moving shade; And feels, alive through all her tender form, The whisper'd murmurs... 
