Some one had told Carlyle that he would find in this literature what he had so long sought after,truth and rest,and he gladly learned the language, and addressed himself to the study of its masters; with what success all the world knows, for he has grafted their thoughts upon his own, and whoever now speaks is more or less consciously impregnated by his influence.

'Tis much too tedious; I dislike thy judgment, My mind is grafted on an humbler stock.

Some of the pear trees that had been grafted had three different kinds of fruit on them, and others had three kinds of apples on them besides the pears.

or has each national tongue grafted into it the technology of the maritime calling?

But they were grafted together, with all the force of legislative wisdom; not that one might be dominant and the other oppressed, but that both should bend to form an arch of common strength, able to resist the weight of such invasions as had perpetually periled, and often crushed, their separate independence.

It was from this Opinion of the Matter, that when Mr. Clayton had finished his Studies in Italy, and brought over the Opera of Arsinoe, that Mr. Haym and Mr. Dieupart, who had the Honour to be well known and received among the Nobility and Gentry, were zealously inclined to assist, by their Solicitations, in introducing so elegant an Entertainment as the Italian Musick grafted upon English Poetry.

The Passion should strike Root, and gather Strength before Marriage be grafted on it.

He keeps on,so I believe,through every possible way and circumstance of human living now, if only the life is grafted on his.

When poor Paul had spelt out number two, he found he had no idea of number one, fragments whereof obtruded themselves into number three, which slided into number four, which grafted itself on to number two.

Whatever form of Grafting is adopted, the inner layers of the bark of the stock or tree on which the operation is performed, must be brought into direct contact with the inner layers of the bark of the branch which is grafted, or, as it is called, the scion.

Choice varieties may be grafted or budded on to the common sorts in June or July.

Any special variety may be grafted on to the seedlings.

On deep soils it is best grafted on the Pear stock; on light, sandy soil it may be grafted on the White Thorn.

On deep soils it is best grafted on the Pear stock; on light, sandy soil it may be grafted on the White Thorn.

They may be increased by cuttings of the young shoots with a little old wood attached, or they may be grafted on to common Privet.

On light soils they should be grafted on to Pear stocks, but on heavy soils they are best worked on the Quince.

The double kinds of Punica, or Pomegranate, should be grafted on to the single ones.

We know that Tennyson had been studying the philosophy of Lâo-Tsze about this time; yet, though this is, as it were, grafted on to the poet's mind, still we may take it as being his genuine and deepest conviction.

'Tis a tree on which have been grafted Homer, Virgil, Milton, Dante, Petrarch; hence have grown peculiar flowers which are not natural, and yet which are not artificial.

For some reason unexplained, having selected his characters, which one may almost say exhibit every form of love except a wholesome and a human one, the author deemed it necessary that the whole should redound to the praise and credit of cloistral virginity and glozing 'honour,' and whatever else of unreal sentiment the cynicism of the renaissance had grafted on the superstition of the middle age.

This comic subplot obviously owes nothing to Guarini, but is introduced in accordance with the usage of the English popular drama, and is grafted somewhat boldly on to the conventional stock.

That modest rose He grafted there.

HYBRIDIZATION We used to think that the smartest man ever born was the Connecticut Yankee who grafted white birch on red maples and grew barber poles.

On an incautious handshake a sprained wrist and an arm bruised into all the colours of the rainbow have been not infrequently grafted.

Now if we had a garden, which we dug, and weeded, and clipped, and pruned ourselves, never eating a potato the sapling of which we had not planted, watered, and if necessary grafted, with our own hands, we should live happy, healthful lives for at least a month or two, coming back to our work having renewed our youth like the rhinoceros." "But you don't know anything about gardening, do you?"