The Sacrifice Of Isabel - A Poem (1816) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. i Fed with the fostering dew of praise.?Mason. a The name of Ala is fictitious 3 Magnolia Grandiflora, commonly called greater Magnolia, or Tulip-tree. This superb tree is indigenous to Florida and South Carolina, where it rises to, the height of eighty feet or more, with a straight trunk, upwards of two feet in diameter, having a large regular head. Its leaves resemble those of the common laurel, but are much larger, and of a shining green on their upper side, and in some trees they are of a russet, or buff colour, on their under side: these leaves continue all the year, so that this is one of the most beautiful evergreens known. In its native places of growth it begins to produce its pure white blossoms in May, and continues a long time in flower, perfuming the woods with its odour during the greater part of summer. It also grows in great beauty in some of the southern climates of Europe, though not to the height which it attains in America.?See Miller. 4 Part of this description of sun-rise is imitated from a very eloquent passage in the Emile of Rousseau. I do not venture to say translated, because I am conscious how little I have done it justice in those lines where the imitation is most close. 5 Alluding to the story told of the wife of Edward the First, Eleanor of Castile, who is said, when her husband was stabbed with a poisoned dagger in Palestine, to have sucked out the poison from the wound, at the risk of her own life, while he slept. In the Press, and speedily will be published, BERTRAM: poetical SIB, EGERTON BRYDGES, BART. K. .T. M.P. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED 10n LONGMAN, HURST, UKES, ORME, AND iIKOWN, PATERNOSTER ROW. THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY ...