 | Benjamin Smith Barton - Botany - 1803 - 630 pages
...following lines in his poem, entitled CYDER. -" The Gourd, " And thirsty Cucumber, when they perceive " Th' approaching Olive, with resentment fly " Her fatty...Tendrils creep " Diverse, detesting contact." — Book 1. 1. 257 — 261. I SHALL afterwardsf have occasion to observe, that it is among some of the vegetables... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...enhances thence The price of her celestial scent : the Gourd, And thirsty Cucumber, when they perceive Th' approaching Olive, with resentment fly Her fatty fibres,...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact ; whilst the Fig Contemns not Rue, nor Sage's humble leaf, Close-neighbouring : th' Herefordian plant... | |
 | Benjamin Smith Barton - Science - 1812 - 390 pages
...following lines in his poem, entitled CYDEH. -" The Gourd, " And thirsty Cucumber, when they perceive " Th' approaching Olive, with resentment fly " Her fatty...Tendrils creep " Diverse, detesting contact." — Book 1. 1.*257 — 261. I SHALL afterwardsf have occasion to observe, that it is among some of the vegetables... | |
 | Benjamin Smith Barton - Science - 1812 - 392 pages
...following lines in his poem, entitled CYDER. -" The Gourd, " And thirsty Cucumber, when they perceive " Th' approaching Olive, with resentment fly " Her fatty fibres, and with Tendrils creep r" Diverse, detesting contact." — Book 1. 1. 257 — 261. I SHALL afterwardsf nave occasion to observe,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...enhances thence The price of her celestial scent. The gourd And thirsty cucumber, when they perceive Th' approaching olive, with resentment fly Her fatty fibres,...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact ; whilst the, jig Contemns not rue nor sage's humble leaf Close neighbouring. The Herefordian plant... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Fruit - 1821 - 428 pages
...much in twentyfour hours as to touch it; but that it will shrink from oil, and turn fairly away from -The gourd And thirsty cucumber, when they perceive...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact. CURRANT-TREE.— RIBES. In Botany, a Genus of the Pentandria Monogynia Class. THIS agreeable and wholesome... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 346 pages
...enhances thence The price of her celestial scent : the Gourd, And thirsty Cucumber, when they perceive Th' approaching Olive, with resentment fly Her fatty fibres,...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact ; whilst the Fig Contemns not Hue, nor Sage's humble leaf, Close-neighbouring: th' Herefordian plant... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Fruit - 1821 - 408 pages
...shrink from oil, and turn fairly away from it. The gourd And thirsty cucumber, when they perceive 'I'll' approaching olive, with resentment fly Her fatty fibres,...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact. . . . Phillips. 134 . •). CURRANT-TREE.— RIBES. In Botany, a Genus of the Pentandria Monogynia... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 298 pages
...enhances thence The price of her celestial scent. The gourd And thirsty cucumber when they perceive The' approaching olive, with resentment fly Her fatty fibres,...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact, whilst the fig Contemns not rue nor sage's humble leaf Close neighbouring. The' Herefordian plant Caresses... | |
 | John S. Skinner, Editor - 1823 - 448 pages
...shrink from oil, and turn fairly away from it. The gourd And thirsty cucumber, when they perceive Th" approaching olive, with resentment fly Her fatty fibres,...and with tendrils creep Diverse, detesting contact. Phillijit. CURX ANT-TREE.—RIBES. /« Botany, a Genus of the Pentandria Monogy nia Class. This agreeable... | |
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Poestan rose unfolds Her bud more lovely near the fetid leek (Crest of stout Britons), and enhances thence The price of her celestial scent : the gourd And thirsty cucumber, when they perceive Th... 
