The feeds arc fald by Author* to poffefs a diuretic quality, and hence the powder of them has been recommend!
in the (tone and gravel. |
T he great B acon, who frequently defcended from his fublimer ftudies, and amufed himfelf with enquirieiinl
the qualities-and properties o f plants, has left us a curious method o f preferring the fo n t o f tins flower.
“ Take Violets, and infuje a good fugil In a quart of Vineger, let tbemfland three quarters of an hour, and take Ik,
“ forth and refrefh the infuflon with like quantity of Violets Jeven times ; and a m il make a Vineger ft frefi ,
"the Rower is, i f a tJehe month after it be brought you in a faucer, you JhallJmcll it before it corneal,\
“ Note. Itfmdlctb more perfectly of the flower a good while after than at theflrfl."
The illuftrious preferiber has giyen no direSions concerning the ufe of■ this preparation ; but it appears to us, to 1
„ , e of a .T n lft grateful prefe?varives agaihft ihfedion, efpecially if the fodngeft d,(Idled vinegar, which has bJ
drawn over in glafs, be made ufe of.
The Violet has been much complimented by the antlent Poets: and our Sh#CBSFB*«e gives it a e p u f j
place in his catalogue g f flowers:
v “ Violets dim,
*i But fweeter than the lids of Juno s eyes^
S? Or Cytherea’s breath.}'
The Commentators have not been fuccefsful in informing us how the 1 lids of Juno’s eyed' hear any tefemblitl
to “ Violets dim ” not recolieding that «As^pcs (having violet eyelids) was a complimentary title with the Grwkpoe«
’ • I j'tS n d g , to a Well lmo#ii cuftdm which ftill prevails m Greece, of colouring the eyelids blue * (‘1
blue found the eyes ; and the infides of the fockets, with the edges on which the la|
‘ Grecian girl is paq , g § | § § g the lalhes and focket of the eye, they throw incenfe orGoml
“ f r°Kjln°um oiffome coals of' fire, intercept the fmoak which afeends with a plate, and colled the foot: thJ
- Lahdanum pq 1 011 a fopha, and clofuig pqe of her eyes* took the two Mr
between 'the fore-fiLer and thumb of her left-hand, pulling them forward, and then thruftmgII, at 11
betweeq r b §k- which has been immerfed in the foot, and extrading it again, the particles befj
: prefently ranged round the organ (prying as a foil to itsluftre, MJ
« d uribftinff as they fay, to its health, and increating its apparent magnitude.' C hanolbr s.Travels
contributing,^, . y 7 ■ , 'beeu rather 0bfcure on this fubjed, where he copies the ancients, he mill
Althoug p ^ us L g genuine effufions of his own imagination. With what precifion a“d^elicaj
dues he drferibe * e foft luchantmentfof plaintive mufic, a. r e t o r t « S ( S B <* ■ B E ‘“" H
in a beautiful fimile, the object of one fenfe by that of another.
“ That Jlrain again; — r— it had a dying fall;
“ Oh! it came o'er my ear, like thefweet fouth^
“ That breathes upon a bank of violets,
“ Stealing and giving odourW
• A Greek poet foppofed lo be a Chriitian from the feverity 1 hie manoer, aad Barfly o f hi, inaruftioa,, forbid, thi, cuilompf pjia&g!“
lids, in the rules of conduit which he addreffes to young women:
“ Unit uihain rjoitrit vira 0^pa^criy
Naumachiusv
traaVato™^cU*as fo^th^raagip'of bTuc J^Ae^Propheq'aHi) aUatk^^^d'ceaforc thi, caAom; ice ^ y , r . 3o .% ifU lld iu y=.