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FLORA’S LEXICON.
ASIL. Ocimum Basilicum. Class 14, Didynamia. Order: Gymnospermia. Poverty is sometimes represented. under the figure of an old woman covered with rags, seated near a plant of basil. It is commonly said, that hate has the eyes of a basilisk, because this name has been given to a fabulous animal, which is stated to produce death by a single glance. Basil, however, is a name derived from the Greek, which signifies royal, and indicates the excellence of this fragrant plant.
HATRED.
I had much rather see
A crested dragon, or a basilisk;
Both are less poison to my eyes and nature.
A crested dragon, or a basilisk;
Both are less poison to my eyes and nature.
Dryden
No voice of friendly salutation cheer’d him,
None wish’d his arms might thrive, or bade God speed him:
But through a staring ghastly-looking crowd,
Unhail’d, unblest, with heavy heart he went.
None wish’d his arms might thrive, or bade God speed him:
But through a staring ghastly-looking crowd,
Unhail’d, unblest, with heavy heart he went.
Rowe.
Oh, that I could but mate him in his might,
Oh, that we were on the dark wave together,
With but one plank between us and destruction,
That I might grasp him in these desperate arms,
And plunge with him amid the weltering billows,
And view him gasp for life.
Oh, that we were on the dark wave together,
With but one plank between us and destruction,
That I might grasp him in these desperate arms,
And plunge with him amid the weltering billows,
And view him gasp for life.
Maturin.
They did not know how hate can burn
In hearts once changed from soft to stern;
Nor all the false and fatal zeal
The convert of revenge can feel.
In hearts once changed from soft to stern;
Nor all the false and fatal zeal
The convert of revenge can feel.
Byron.
