 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...carefully bent over them to keep the turf uninjured, and about them were planted evergreens and flowers. " We adorn their graves," says Evelyn, in his Sylva,...roots being buried in dishonour, rise again in glory." This usage has now become extremely rare in England ; but it may still be met with in the churchyards... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 320 pages
...carefully bent over them to keep the turf uninjured, and about them were planted evergreens and flowers. " We adorn their graves," says Evelyn, in his Sylva,...being buried in dishonour, rise again- in glory." This usage has now become extremely rare in England; but it may still be met with in the church-yards... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 600 pages
...happily 406 Rural Cemeteries. expressed by Evelyn in his " Sylva." " We adorn," says he, " their graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been coinpared in Holy Scripture to those fading beauties, whose roots being buried in dishonor, rise again... | |
 | John Timbs - 1822 - 276 pages
...Propertius has this expression ; " — — ct tonei a. poncret ossa ROS&." 2 < ROUND DORKING. 139 '* We adorn their graves," says Evelyn, in his Sylva,...appears to have been the favoured flower among the antients ; and of which Evelyn says, " this sweet flower, borne on a branch set with thorns, and accompanied... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...carefully bent over them to keep the turf uninjured, and about them were planted evergreens and flowers. « We adorn their graves,» says Evelyn, in his Sylva,...roots being buried in dishonour, rise again in glory. » This usage has now become extremely rare in England ; but it may still be met with in the churchyards... | |
 | 1831 - 518 pages
...a universal poetical sentiment. Old Evelyn says, in his Sylva — " Flowers and redolent plants are just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in Holy Scrip, tures to those fading beauties whose roots being buried in dishonour, rise again in glory !... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 362 pages
...a springing memory, or a fair rehearsal." The pious John Evelyn also says, " We adorn their graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of...being buried in dishonour, rise again in glory."* Why was the rose a favoured flower ? Because it is distinctly specified in the ancient rite ; indeed,... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1833 - 318 pages
...to this practice as a thing of ordinary occurrence in his day. " We adorn their graves," says he, " with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of...whose roots, being buried in dishonour, rise again iu glory." THE VIOLET. VIOLA ODORATA. " Bring violet buds to shed Around my dying bed A breath of May,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 pages
...carefully bent over them to keep the turf uninjured, and about them were planted evergreens and flowers. " We adorn their graves," says Evelyn, in his Sylva,...roots being buried in dishonour, rise again in glory." This usage has now become extremely rare in England ; but it may still be met with in the churchyards... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...turf uninjured , and about them were planted evergreens and flowers. « We adorn their graves , » saw Evelyn , in his Sylva , « with flowers and redolent...emblems of the life of man , which has been compared iu Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties , whose roots 'emg buried in dishonour, rise again in glory.... | |
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The custom of decorating graves was once universally prevalent : osiers were carefully bent over them to keep the turf uninjured, and about them were planted evergreens and flowers. "We adorn their graves," says Evelyn, in his Sylva, "with flowers and... 
