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[ { "from": "human", "value": "where the love of flowers is concerned, has an attraction which is not the less powerful because it is difficult to explain. The charm of the garden may be strong, but it is not so strong as that which draws us to seek for wildflowers in their native haunts, whether of shore or ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or a sign of some latent sympathy between plant and man? We do not know; but we know that our interest in flowers is no longer utilitarian, as in the herbalism of a bygone time, or decorative and æsthetic, as in the immemorial use of the garland on festive occasions, and in the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as they called it--had actual power to unite and solidify a broken bone. But how if there be flowers that can in very truth make whole a broken spirit? Even in the Middle Ages it was recognized that mental benefit was to be gained from this source, as when betony was extolled fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Flowers as flowers, was Thoreau's demand, when he lamented in his journal that there was no book which treated of them in that light, no real" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Out of sight, out of mind," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the county, becomes an almost romantic book of adventure, when the student can supply the details from his own knowledge, and so read with illumination" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm no scholar, more's the pity. But it was my friends and acquaintances--those, at least, who had some botanical knowledge--who were the chief sufferers during this period of inquiry; and, looking back, I often marvel at the patience with which they endured the problems with wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as Dryden said of matrimony; or worst of all, where one's yoke-fellow may insist, as sometimes happens, on walking" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; and the proximity of the sea has a most genial and stimulating effect upon its grandchildren the flowers, not those only that are peculiar to the beach, but also the inland kinds. There is no" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--flat expanses of loose pebbles formerly ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This, wrote the author of the _Flora of Sussex_ (1907)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The hope seems likely to be frustrated. Among the rubble of concrete slabs, and piles of timber, only three or four tufts of the trefoil were surviving last year, with every likelih...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harbour, a wild estuary of some extent, between Selsey and Bognor, is another locality that has earned a reputation for its flowers, the most remarkable of which is the very local proliferous pink, which has long been known as abundant on that portion of the coast, though elsewh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--that the holiday-folk in the neighbouring towns forsake for a day or two the pleasures of pier or parade, and sally forth over the stony wildernesses in a search for" }, { "from": "human", "value": "; as when the" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LEVELS, or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "though often bordering on a tidal river, are not themselves salt marshes, nor is their flora a maritime one; in that respect they differ from the East-coast fens described by Crabbe in one of his _Tales_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Lover's Journey" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "seems to be--well, not on the part of the flowers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dull as ditchwater," }, { "from": "human", "value": "as it is misnamed; for though the petals are pink, its yellow eye and general form proclaim it to be of the _primulaceæ_...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Question," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "mayweed, which is _not_ scentless. Many of the umbellifers also are notoriously difficult to identify; and among leguminous plants there is a bewildering similarity between black medick, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the lesser clover (_trifolium minus_), whi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wild Flowers," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, lilies of the valley, of course, was the reply. When the truth was explained, the visitor thanked the keeper cordially, and added:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was picking the flowers for my wife: but if I had brought her a present of garlic she would have h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--or when, with our lives in our hands, so to speak, we experiment in fungus-eating, and learn that a particular mushroom has its stem" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have I done?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Squinancy-wort." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is preferable to _aconitum_," }, { "from": "human", "value": "to _ononis_," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is often very misleading in the English nomenclature. Anyone, for example, who should go confidently searching for the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "at once explain themselves, as indicating supposed remedies for ills that flesh is heir to. Others, if less obvious, are still not far to seek; the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for example, derived from the Latin _scabies_, was reputed to be a cure for leprosy: a f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In _campanula hederacea_, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jack by the hedge for the garlic mustard;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "John go to bed at noon for the goat's-beard;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for the money-wort; and" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Majestic mountains," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is the round-headed rampion, a small, erect, blue-bonneted flower which is no" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Living Garment," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you seen the bee orchis?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the sluggish creature (as mankind has made her) would certainly have perished unless he had chanced to come to the rescue. When I told the good man what had brought me to that unfrequented coombe, he said, as country people often do, that he did not" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as Mr. Hudson has called them," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "a place which leaves an impression of dulness and futility; for while we fully recognize the interest, such as it is, of inducing Alpines to grow under altered conditions of climate, there is an irrelevance in the assembling of heterogeneous flowers in one enclosure, which perpl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tutsan is a hardy shrubby St. John's-wort, largely employed by gardeners of the last century; but it has now, for the most part, retired from business, in consequence of the arrival of more attractive and equally serviceable newcomers. One or two tutsan bushes may be permitted t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Idyll of Primrose Day" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Towards the end of August, 1861, I was shown the native station of this plant. . . . The people in those parts had found out it was in request, and had almost entirely extirpated it, digging up the roots, and selling them for transplantation into shrubberies. In the same work it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks to the inconsiderate rapacity of the fern-getter, wrote Canon Rawnsley, in an Introduction to a _Guide to Lakeland_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and he went on to ask:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "When will travellers learn that the fern by ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "coursing along the horizon; nor have they that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[11] I used to call the floor of this chalk-pit" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "German madwort," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which is much more like a diminutive pine than a bugle; also the still stranger fir-rape (_monotropa_), which lurks in the thickest shade of the beech-woods. That interesting shrub, the butcher's-broom, or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is visible on a clear day, and a view of the Crystal Palace," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as one has heard it called, can seldom be avoided. What havoc has been wrought in the Surrey hills by the advance of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "may be learnt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For my part, wrote Gilbert White," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think there is something peculiarly sweet and amusing in the shapely figured aspect of chalk hills, in preference to those of stone, which are rugged, broken, abrupt, and shapeless. [12] The same opin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is felt, though to a feast of a less ethereal order. Fungus hunting is one of the best of sports, and a joy unknown to those who imagine that the orthodox" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of the market is the only wholesome species; and it is worthy of note that, where...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or of a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in the plants that are so entitled, and it takes some ingenuity to discover the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "in _aceras anthropophora_, or the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "plants not confined to any one order, but alike in having a stem which passes midway through the leaf or pair of leaves, a most engaging curiosity of structure. It is by this peculiarity that the yellow-wort, a gentian with glaucous foliage and blossoms like" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mountain-sanicle" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is its Greek title; but if it has little claim to beauty in the ordinary sense, there is no slight charm in its delicate configuration, and in the whimsical arrangement of its five slender flower-heads--a terminal one, facing upwards, supported by four lateral ones, with a resem...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and so forth. It was aptly described by Gerarde as" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "than the succory and the corn" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--the light blue and the dark blue; both have deservedly won their" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of which I have already spoken, the thorow-wax or hare's-ear, which in Gerarde's time was so plentiful in the wheatland as to be what he calls its" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of some Hertfordshire cornfields is the crow-garlic, a wild onion whose pink umbels often surmount the crop in hundreds. Wishing to learn their local name, I once asked a farm-hand at Letchworth what he called the flowers. After gazing at them sternly, he said to me:" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only a few pages back, I referred to the case of a pond in Hertfordshire now strongly held by a battalion of water-soldiers, the descendants of imported plants. There is evidence, too, that the practice has occasionally been indulged in by naturalists of great distinction, an am...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alpines" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A month later the equally attractive Nottingham catch-fly (_silene nutans_) will be abundant on the rocks; a plant of nocturnal habits which expands its petals and becomes fragrant in the evening, but" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as its Latin name avows, in the day...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thus in Delamer's _The Flower Garden_ it is stated that this avens" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was ever such blindness of eye, such hardness of heart? And the wiseacre goes on to say that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Peak has always seemed a vain one, not merely because there is no peak in the county at all, but because no connoisseur can doubt for a moment that the district which alone has the true characteristics of a mountain is the great triangular plateau of gritstone known as Kinde...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "himself, when with eagle eyes he stared at the Pacific, had seen that ocean labelled as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trespassers will be prosecuted," }, { "from": "human", "value": "of trespassers is in reality merely a _brutum fulmen_ launched by landl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is the despairing landlord, who has been so broken by previous invasions that he is now content with a shrug of the shoulders and a remark that the place is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is the courteous landlord, who politely assumes that you have lost ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Preserve." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mystical Ballad," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gaunt Shape, come you alive or dead, My footsteps shall not swerve." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're trespassing, the Vision said:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This place is a preserve." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How so? Is some d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're not preserving _you_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Lord preserve us all!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of Llandudno, this once beautiful foreland has become a place almost of horror, vulgarized by trams, motor-roads, golf-links, and all the appurtenances of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and were it not for the wildflowers, it might well be shunned by those who knew i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is to me the most precious of all. My earliest recollections of it, I must own, are as an ingredient of claret-cup at Cambridge, its silver-grey stems floating in the wine with a pleasant roughness to the lip; but in those unregenerate days we did not know the real virtue of the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lily-land has been given by Mr. J. A. Barnes in a sketch of Arnside, and which he describes as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On the wooded hill known as Arnside Park the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "May lily, as it used to be called (and here it is c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ": and on the lawns that skirt the Knott one often sees the mountain-cudweed or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the gromwell or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and the beautiful little dwarf orchis. The district is rather rich in orchids; among others, I f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lily-land, as he tells us," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; on the contrary it is both pleasant and profitable to compare not only plant with plant, but the flora of one fertile district with that of another. The natural scenery of Arnside is yet unspoilt, and for that reason it now offers greater attractions to the nature-lover than t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Botanophilists, as Linnæus termed them; viz. those who record various facts about flowers, but not from a strictly scientific standpoint." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never studied botany, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I asked a learned and accurate naturalist, he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was the human aspect of the flower that Thoreau craved; and he was therefore disappointed when he saw" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thus he complained that botanies a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the discovery of one new plant all bounds seem to be infinitely removed. He notes, too, the not uncommon experience, that a flower, once recognized, is likely soon to be re-encountered. Seeing something blue, or glaucous, in a swamp, he approaches it, and finds it to be the _...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ": thus in mid-June he brings home some rosebuds ready to expand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At another time the grateful thought of the calamint's scent suffices him:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I need not smell it; it is a balm to my mind to rem...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps what most moves us in winter is some reminiscence of far-off summer. How we leap by the side of the open brooks! What life, what society! The cold is merely superficial; it is summer still at the core." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "who, however deleterious to human welfare, have a sinister beauty and distinction of their own, and are thus able to fascinate us. Prominent among these is the clan of the nightshades, to which the mandrake itself belongs, and which has several well-known representatives among B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sensitive Plant the epithet" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "should be given to the hemlock, to which it is quite unsuited, rather than to the henbane, where its appropriateness could not be questioned; for the stalk, leaves, and flowers of the henbane are alike clammy...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It beareth, Gerarde tells us," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A traitor, a masked bandit it is, of such evil reputation that, according to Pliny, it kills man," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which has all the appearance of being waste and valueless; yet whenever I visit the place I think of Thoreau's words:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For that bog, ignored or despised by the dwellers round the Common, except when a horse or a cow gets stuck in it and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "nor need we, I think, follow the rather strained distinction drawn by Anne Pratt, a writer who, though belonging to a somewhat wordy and sentimental school, and indulging in a good deal of what might be called" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "are indeed temples to the flower-lover, by virtue both of the rarer species that inhabit them, and of the unbroken succession of beautiful plants that they maintain, from the rich gold of the globe-flower in early summer to the exquisite purity of the grass of Parnassus in autum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is it surprising that the lover of flowers should play the part of a modern" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but the expression is not a fitting one, for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "suggests" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is _that_ one?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Snowdon pink ; lady's-mantle, intermixed with the reddening leaves of mountain-sorrel; Welsh poppy, not so common a flower in Wales as its name would suggest; and at least three kinds of beautiful white blossoms--the starry saxifrage, the mossy saxifrage, and the shapely little ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of Snowdon to the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is that Helvellyn?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "overlooks the Red Tarn, and throws out two great lateral ridges--on the right, in De Quincey's words," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and Swirrel Edge on the left--Helvellyn is a very fine mountain, and what is more to the present purpose, is botanically the most inte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or as the politicians say," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Elegiac Verses, composed by Wordsworth" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This most beautiful plant is scarce in England. The first specimen I ever saw of it, in its native bed, was singularly fine, the tuft or cushion being at least eight inches in diameter. I have only...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This [herb] was choice, because of prime use in medicine; and that, more choice, for yielding a rare flavour to pottage; and a third choicest of all, because possessed of no merit but its extreme scarcity." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seek, and ye shall find, but," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seek, and ye shall not _need_ to find. This may be a true doctrine, but it seems rather a hard one; certainly it is not easy, at the time, to regard with entire complacency the result of a blank day; and th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he has ever before him an object for his pursuit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wretched is he, says Rousseau," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here! I'd like to show you that field where the elecampane grows," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "itself has arrived, there is less of regret than of resignation. I do not know where the tranquil grief for parted loveliness is so tenderly expressed as in a fragmentary poem of Shelley's," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Zucca, which, though little known by the m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Epipsychidion," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is a term which may here be used in a general sense for any sweet and pleasing flower), and realizes that he is now face to face with the season's euthanasia," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Army and Navy Series" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Young America Abroad, First and Second Series" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Boat-Club Stories" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Great Western Series" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE OVERSEER ELEVATED HIS RIFLE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Brother Against Brother is the first of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Blue and the Gray Army Series, which will include six volumes, though the number is contingent upon the longevity ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Victorious Union," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Riverlawn," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE OVERSEER ELEVATED HIS RIFLE" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THEN YOU MEAN I AM DRUNK" }, { "from": "human", "value": "HE GRAPPLED WITH THE FELLOW" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I HAD TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO HIT THE LADY" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I haven't heard your Cousin Artie, who is just your age, and old enough to do something on his own account, say much about the troubles of the times, added Mr. Lyon, bestowing an inquiring look upon his son." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have seen Sandy Lyon talki...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have been shopping this forenoon, haven't you, Ruth?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not do much shopping; but I called upon Amelia, and found her very much troubled," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should think she might be troubled, replied ...