FLORA’S LEXICON.
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ARDINAL’S FLOWER. Lobelia Cardinalis, Class 5, Pentandria. Order: Monogynia. This elegant plant is decorated with bright scarlet flowers. It is indigenous in our country, growing on the borders of rivers and streamlets. It is a flower of singular elegance and richness.
DISTINCTION.
For places in the court, are but like beds
In the hospital; where this man’s head lies
At that man’s foot, and so lower and lower.
In the hospital; where this man’s head lies
At that man’s foot, and so lower and lower.
Webster.
If on the sudden he begins to rise;
No man that lives can count his enemies.
No man that lives can count his enemies.
Middleton.
All preferment
That springs from sin and lust shoots up quickly;
As gard’ner’s crops do in the rott’nest grounds;
So is all means raised from base prostitution,
Even like a salad growing upon a dunghill.
That springs from sin and lust shoots up quickly;
As gard’ner’s crops do in the rott’nest grounds;
So is all means raised from base prostitution,
Even like a salad growing upon a dunghill.
Middleton.
What throngs of great impediments besiege
The virtuous mind? so thick, they jostle
One another as they come. Hath vice a
Charter got, that none must rise, but such, who
Of the devil’s faction are? the way to
Honour is not evermore the way to
Hell: a virtuous man may climb. Let the
Flatterer sell his lies elsewhere, it is
Unthrifty merchandise to change my gold
For breath.
The virtuous mind? so thick, they jostle
One another as they come. Hath vice a
Charter got, that none must rise, but such, who
Of the devil’s faction are? the way to
Honour is not evermore the way to
Hell: a virtuous man may climb. Let the
Flatterer sell his lies elsewhere, it is
Unthrifty merchandise to change my gold
For breath.
Davenant
