 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...deportment claim; And, if neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What...knew, and well of each could speak, That in her garden sipp'd the silv'ry dew; Where no vain rlow'r disclos'da gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | William Shenstone, Thomas Park - 1808 - 342 pages
...deportment claim ; And if neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What...knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silvery dew, Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak, But herbs for use and physic,... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...revere : For never title yet so mean could prove, But there was eke a mind which did that title love. i For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What...knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sip'd the silvery dew ; Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...deportment claim : And if neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crum she found. Herbs, too, she knew, and well of each could speak, That in her garden sipp'd the silv'ry... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...claim : And, if Neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What...knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silvery dew ; Where no vain flower disclos'da gawdy streak , But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...And, if Neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For veil she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it...knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sippM the silvery dew ; Where no vain flower disclos'da gawdy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...never title yet so mean could prove, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumh she found. Herhs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silvery dew; Where no vain flower disclos'da gawdy streak; But herhs for use, and physie,... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1823 - 328 pages
...additions she did bear. The worthy Lady Bountiful of the village, she understood some little of pharmacy: Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silvery dew ; and though no Puritan, she sometimes administered real Christian advice and... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...nature, and transferred to those more humble, but not less interesting productions, herbs and plants. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That...flower disclosed a gaudy streak; But herbs for use, and physic, not a few, Of grey renown, within those borders grew: The tufted basil, pun-provoking thyme,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 386 pages
...deportment claim ; And if neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What...knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silvery dew, Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak, But herbs for use and physic,... | |
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And if neglect had lavished on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. 
