Proserpina

How To Use Proserpina In A Sentence

• The truth of all popular traditions as to the healing power of herbs will be tried impartially as soon as men again desire to lead healthy lives; but I shall not in 'Proserpina' retain any of the names of their gathered and dead or distilled substance, but name them always from the characters of their life. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• The object of 'Proserpina' is to make him happily cognizant of the common aspect of Greek and English flowers; under the term Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• 'Proserpina' than is becoming, because I know not how far I may be permitted to carry on that which was begun in 'Fors.' Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• In the meantime, everything being again thrown out of gear by the aforesaid illness, I must let this piece of 'Proserpina' break off, as most of my work does -- and as perhaps all of it may soon do -- leaving only suggestion for the happier research of the students who trust me thus far. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• Thistle as the emblem of Scotland in Ruskin's "Proserpina," pp. 135-139. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
• Proserpina," etc. -- as well as his regular work at "Fors," and the St. George's Company was then taking definite form; -- and all the while the lady of his love was dying under the most tragic circumstances, and he forbidden to approach her. The Life of John Ruskin
• Pluto, or Hades, rules the underworld but even he was taken by the power of love and lust, for Proserpina.
• They sing their tales, including the rape of Proserpina, in dactylic pentameter, as does Orpheus when he charms the king and queen of Hades with his appeal to retrieve Eurydice.
• 'For the present,' I say all this work in 'Proserpina' being merely tentative, much to be modified by future students, and therefore quite different from that of 'Deucalion,' which is authoritative as far as it reaches, and will stand out like a quartz dyke, as the sandy speculations of modern gossiping geologists get washed away. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• Proserpina" -- so named from the Flora of the Greeks, the daughter of The Life of John Ruskin