 Druidism prevailed the houses were decked with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and •cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes.  The Country Gentleman's Magazine - Стр. 279авторы: Simpkin Marshall & Co. - 1868Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1804 - Страниц: 452
...with ever-greens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes." ., T ••I. '. . CHRISTMAS BOX. We are told, in the Athenian Oracle, that the *Christmas-'Box-Money... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - Страниц: 510
...Eter-grccns in Decent* " ber, that the Sylvan Spirits might repair to them, and remain " unnipped with Frost and cold Winds, until a milder Season had " renewed the foliage of their darling Abodes." Travels in Greece. * This illustrates the Spectator's Observation, where he tells us, that our Forefather!... | |
 | Richard Chandler - 1817 - Страниц: 736
...with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes. The gods of Greece, at least the inferior class, were conceived liable to like sufferings. They . were... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - Страниц: 636
...with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes." In the ancient festivities of Christmas, while the cheer was of the most inviting nature to our hale... | |
 | William Jackson Hooker - 1821 - Страниц: 624
..." houses were decked with them, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them and remain unniped by frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes," J4. POTAMOGETON. I* Upper leaves floating. 1. P, natans (broad-leaved Pond-weed), upper leaves floating... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1821 - Страниц: 624
..." houses were decked with them, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them and remain unniped by frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes." 14. POTAMOGETON. * Upper leaves floating. 1. P. nalans (Iroad-lcaved Pond-iveed}, upper leaves floating... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - Страниц: 846
...with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes. Stowe, in his Survey of London, says, that against the Feast of Christmas, every man's house, as also... | |
 | 1827 - Страниц: 590
...with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes.' In Shakspeare's time, it was customary among the common people, as soon as the morning of the Nativity... | |
 | George Johnston - 1829 - Страниц: 288
...CHANDLER, " bouses were decked with them, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them unnipped I iy frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes." 53. POTAMOGETON. 1. P. natans, upper leaves oblong-ovate, stalked, floating, coriaceous; lower ones... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1830 - Страниц: 510
..." houses were decked with them, that the sylvan spirits might repair thither and remain unnipped by frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes." — Innumerable varieties of this plant are reared by gardeners, mainly depending upon the variegation... | |
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