This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... flower. Sixty references to the rose are scattered through his works. Sometimes he talks of the rose itself and sometimes he uses the word to make a striking comparison, or analogy. With magical touch he gives us the bold picture of a then he brings before us a delicious whiff of the or the luscious ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... flower. Sixty references to the rose are scattered through his works. Sometimes he talks of the rose itself and sometimes he uses the word to make a striking comparison, or analogy. With magical touch he gives us the bold picture of a then he brings before us a delicious whiff of the or the luscious fragrance of Morning roses newly washed with dew. With equal delicacy of perception he tells us So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not To those fresh morning drops upon the rose.1 '"Love's Labour's Lost"; Act IV, Scene III. Red rose on triumphant briar, Perfumed tincture of the roses, Shakespeare's special roses are the Red, the White, the Musk, the Eglantine (sweetbrier), the Provencal, or Provins, the Damask, the Canker, and the Variegated. THE RED ROSE (Rose Anglica rubra), the English red, is thus described by Parkinson: "The Red Rose, which I call English because this rose is more frequent and used in England than in other places, never groweth so high as the Damask Rose-bush, but more usually abideth low and shooteth forth many branches from the Rose-bush (and is but seldom suffered to grow up as the Damask Rose into standards) with a green bark thinner set with prickles and longer and greener leaves on the upper side than in the white, yet with an eye of white upon them, five likewise most usually set upon a stalk and grayish, or whitish, underneath. The Roses, or flowers, do very much vary according to their site and abiding, for some are of an orient red, or deep crimson, color and very double (although never so double as the White), which, when it is full blown, hath the largest leaves of any other Rose; some of them again are paler, tending somewhat to a Damask; and some are of so pale a red as that it is rather of the color...
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