. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. IVHEA T. in the churchyard of West Harptre, Somersetshire, said to have been brought from St. Helena, where Napoleon, from 1815 to 1822, had leisure to review his nineteen years of life, spent amid scenes of carnage and bloodshed, and to mourn over the schemes of ambition, which he had planned and striven to carry out, frustrated and annihilated. This now magnificent tree is stated to have been planted by the Rev. G. T. Hudson, vicar, 1837-42. WHEAT.—Riches. " Now grain, wide
. The language of flowers: or, Floral emblems of thoughts, feelings, and sentiments ... Flower language. IVHEA T. in the churchyard of West Harptre, Somersetshire, said to have been brought from St. Helena, where Napoleon, from 1815 to 1822, had leisure to review his nineteen years of life, spent amid scenes of carnage and bloodshed, and to mourn over the schemes of ambition, which he had planned and striven to carry out, frustrated and annihilated. This now magnificent tree is stated to have been planted by the Rev. G. T. Hudson, vicar, 1837-42. WHEAT.—Riches. " Now grain, wide o'er the plain, Delights the weary farmer,"—BURNS. WHEN he, seated upon a rustic stile, looks down, right and left, upon the valleys beneath, standing so thick with corn, that they seem to laugh and sing; and thither we would gladly wend our way to share his pleasure, as if in answer to Miss Twamley's summons, " Come, let us rest on yon rude stile where stand The village children, and look o'er the sea Of golden-coloured grain, that waves beneath The gentle breath of the soft Summer's ; Meet emblem of Riches is the golden wheat, for is it not to the children of men the most important element of that annual shower of wealth which falls, as it were, direct from heaven, to feed and sustain in life, not only the human race, but every living thing that hath breath ! And the abundance, 207. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tyas, Robert, 1811-1879. London, New York, G. Routledge and sons
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