 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 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 sip'd the silvery dew ; Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physick,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 418 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 sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sip'd the silvery dew ; Where no... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 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 gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 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 disclosed a gaudy streak, But herbs for use and physic,... | |
 | Decorative arts - 1823 - 466 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...claim ; And, if neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; d her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magic structures,...into heaps o'er thy false head. COTsuS. She fables sip'd the silvery dew ; Where no vain flower disclos'da gaudy streak; But herbs for use, and physie,... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...physic as well as of simple cookery, and was formerly more regarded than at present. The Schoobniitreit. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That...disclosed a gaudy streak ; But herbs for use, and physic, not a few, Of grey renown, within those borders grew : The tufted Basil, punprovoking Thyme,... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott, William Yates - Chile - 1824 - 560 pages
...two or three women and children, who had collected round her while we were in the garden : For herbs she knew, and well of each could speak, That in her garden sipped the silvery dew, Where many ajlawer displayed its gaudy streak With herbs for use, and physic not a few, Of grey renown, within... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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 sin it were to waste the smallest cruui she found. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silvery... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 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 disclosed a 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. 
