The Botanic Garden. Part 2, Containing the Loves of the Plants. A Poem.: With Philosophical Notes.Darwin, Erasmus
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The Botanic Garden. Part 2, Containing the Loves of the Plants. A Poem.: With Philosophical Notes.
Darwin, Erasmus
Natural history; Plants -- Poetry
I will therefore only add, that there exists also a sort of Cajoe-Upat on
the coast of Macassar, the poison of which operates nearly in the same
manner, but is not half so violent or malignant as that of Java, and
of which I shall likewise give a more circumstantial account in a
description of that island.--_London Magazine_.
CATALOGUE OF THE POETIC EXHIBITION.
CANTO I.
Group of insects--Tender husband--Self-admirer--Rival lovers--Coquet
--Platonic wife--Monster-husband--Rural happiness--Clandestine marriage
--Sympathetic lovers--Ninon d'Enclos--Harlots--Giants--Mr. Wright's
paintings--Thalestris Autumnal scene--Dervise procession--Lady in full
dress--Lady on a precipice--Palace in the sea--Vegetable lamb--Whale--
Sensibility--Mountain-scene by night--Lady drinking water--Lady and
cauldron--Medea and Æson--Forlorn nymph Galatea on the sea--Lady frozen
to a statue
CANTO II.
Air-balloon of Mongolfier--Arts of weaving and spinning--Arkwright's
cotton mills--Invention of letters, figures and crotchets--Mrs. Delany's
paper-garden--Mechanism of a watch, and design for its case--Time, hours,
moments--Transformation of Nebuchadnazer--St. Anthony preaching to fish
Sorceress--Miss Crew's drawing--Song to May--Frost scene--Discovery of the
bark--Moses striking the rock--Dropsy--Mr. Howard and prisons
CANTO III.
Witch and imps in a church--Inspired Priestess--Fusseli's night-mare--Cave
of Thor and subterranean Naïads--Medea and her children--Palmira weeping
Group of wild creatures drinking--Poison tree of Java--Time and hours--Lady
shot in battle--Wounded deer--Harlots--Laocoon and his sons--Drunkards and
diseases--Prometheus and the vulture--Lady burying her child in the plague
Moses concealed on the Nile--Slavery of the Africans--Weeping Muse
CANTO IV.
Maid of night Fairies--Electric lady--Shadrec, Meshec, and Abednego, in
the fiery furnace--Shepherdesses--Song to Echo--Kingdom of China--Lady and
distaff--Cupid spinning--Lady walking in snow--Children at play--Venus and
Loves--Matlock Bath--Angel bathing--Mermaid and Nereids--Lady in salt--
Lot's wife--Lady in regimentals--Dejanira in a lion's skin--Offspring from
the marriage of the Rose and Nightingale--Parched deserts in Africa--
Turkish lady in an undress--Ice-scene in Lapland--Lock-lomond by moon
light--Hero and Leander--Gnome-husband and Palace under ground--Lady
inclosed in a fig--Sylph-husband--Marine cave--Proteus-lover--Lady on a
Dolphin--Lady bridling a Pard--Lady saluted by a Swan--Hymeneal procession
--Night
CONTENTS OF THE NOTES.
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Seeds of Canna used for prayer-beads
Stems and leaves of Callitriche so matted together, as they float on the
water, as to bear a person walking on them
The female in Collinsonia approaches first to one of the males, and then
to the other
Females in Nigella and Epilobium bend towards the males for some days,
and then leave them
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