Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
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page 333 of 577 (57%)
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Violet, White--Modesty.
Wallflower--Fidelity. Weeping Willow--Forsaken. Woodbine--Fraternal love. Yew--Sorrow. Zennæ--Absent friends. * * * * * MASTERPIECES OF ELOQUENCE The following masterpieces of elegiac eloquence are unsurpassed in the repertory of the English classics, for lofty and noble sentiment, exquisite pathos, vivid imagery, tenderness of feeling, glowing power of description, brilliant command of language, and that immortal and seldom attained faculty of painting in the soul of the listener or reader a realistic picture whose sublimity of conception impresses the understanding with awe and admiration, and impels the mind to rise involuntarily for the time to an elevation out of and above the inconsequent contemplation of the common and sordid things of life. AT HIS BROTHER'S GRAVE. |
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