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" For thee my borders nurse the fragrant wreath, My fountains murmur, and my zephyrs breathe; Slow slides the painted snail, the gilded fly Smooths his fine down, to charm thy curious eye... "
The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 188
1793
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1793 - 636 pages
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The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of ...

Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1798 - 472 pages
...My fountains murmur, and my zephyrs breathe; Slow flides the painted fnail, the gilded fly Smoothes his fine down, to charm thy curious eye ; On twinkling fins my pearly nations play, Or win with finuous train their tracklefs way; 20 So tli fair foiacr. \. 13. It feems to have been the original...
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Beauties of The Botanic Garden

Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1805 - 224 pages
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The Maternal Physician: A Treatise on the Nurture and Management of Infants ...

American matron - Child care - 1811 - 300 pages
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The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts; Containing The Economy of ...

Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1824 - 246 pages
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
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Russell's Magazine, Volume 5

Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1859 - 610 pages
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
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Contributions of physicians to English and American literature

Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 pages
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Erasmus Darwins Botanic Garden, Von Dr. Leopold Brandl ...

Leopold Brandl - 1909 - 552 pages
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