The Every-day Book and Table Book; Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times: Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... for Daily Use and DiversionsPub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Almanacs, English |
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Page 131
... FLOWERS . The monks , or the observers of monkish rules , have compiled a Catalogue of Flow- ers for each day in the year , and dedi- cated each flower to a particular saint , on account of its flowering about the time of the saint's ...
... FLOWERS . The monks , or the observers of monkish rules , have compiled a Catalogue of Flow- ers for each day in the year , and dedi- cated each flower to a particular saint , on account of its flowering about the time of the saint's ...
Page 133
... flowers , it would be injustice to extract from its pages without remarking its usefulness , and elegance of composi- tion . Lamenting that " plants often meet with an untimely death from the igno- of their nurses , " the amiable author ...
... flowers , it would be injustice to extract from its pages without remarking its usefulness , and elegance of composi- tion . Lamenting that " plants often meet with an untimely death from the igno- of their nurses , " the amiable author ...
Page 137
... flowers , and bunches of knot grass , And diamonded with panes of quaint device Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes , As are the tiger - moth's deep damask'd wings ; And in the midst , ' mong thousand heraldries , And twilight ...
... flowers , and bunches of knot grass , And diamonded with panes of quaint device Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes , As are the tiger - moth's deep damask'd wings ; And in the midst , ' mong thousand heraldries , And twilight ...
Page 149
... flowers making their ap- pearance ; the Christmas rose , the snow- drop , the polyanthea , the single or border anemone , the hepatica in its varieties , and the mazerion were in full bloom ; the Narcissus making its appearance , and ...
... flowers making their ap- pearance ; the Christmas rose , the snow- drop , the polyanthea , the single or border anemone , the hepatica in its varieties , and the mazerion were in full bloom ; the Narcissus making its appearance , and ...
Page 205
... Flowers beside , Both of a fresh and fragrant kinne , To honour Whitsontide . Green Bushes then , and sweetest Bents , With cooler Oken boughs , Come in for comely ornaments To re - adorn the house . Thus times do shift ; each thing his ...
... Flowers beside , Both of a fresh and fragrant kinne , To honour Whitsontide . Green Bushes then , and sweetest Bents , With cooler Oken boughs , Come in for comely ornaments To re - adorn the house . Thus times do shift ; each thing his ...
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