...te fragrant blossoms, on long slender elastic peduncles, at the extremities of its numerous branches, from the bosom of the leaves, and renewed every morning --the budding, fading, faded flowers of Ruth . Or again we see the solitary dejected wood-pelican, alone on the topmost limb of a dead cypress; it looks extremely grave, sorrowful, and melancholy, as if in the deepest thought --an image used b...