(7 quotes found)
“The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows. . . .”
William Cullen Bryant
“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.”
Hamlin Garland
“And I will make thee beds of roses / And a thousand fragrant posies.”
Christopher Marlowe
“Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.”
Letitia Landon
“I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson”
James Boswell
