Hox, 
Duxus sempervirens. Narurar Orver: Euphorbiacee— Spurge Family. 
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NGRAVERS on wood are much indebted to this tree for the 
blocks they use to work on, which, after having been sawed 
="and made perfectly smooth, receive a slight coating of some 
white substance, usually white lead or Chinese white, to 
render the drawing more conspicuous. The artist’s work is 
done in pencil or India ink. The engraver then follows with 
delicate touch the lines before him, and cuts the picture into the wood 
beneath. The botanical name of this shrub comes from the Latin. 
The word Buxus, box, is itself derived from the Greek pu«os, pyx, or 
small box, and sempervirens is from the two Latin words semper, 
always, and vzrens, present participle of the verb were, to be green. 
There are several varieties of this genus which are natives of Europe. 
The species known scientifically as the Buxus Nana, or Dwarf Box, 
is much used as a bordering for walks both here and abroad. 
Stoitism. 
N his dark face a scorching clime The full-drawn lip that upward curl’d, 
And toil, had done the work of time, The eye that seem’d to scorn the world. 
Roughen’d the brow, the temples bared, That lip had terror never blench’d; 
And sable hairs with silver shared, Ne’er in that eye had tear-drop quench’d 
Yet left—-what age alone could tame— The flash severe of swarthy glow, 
The lip of pride, the eye of flame; That mock’d at pain and knew not woe. 
—Sir Walter Scott. 
OR box, nor limes, without their use are made, 
‘a Smooth-grain’d and proper for the turner’s trade; 
Which curious hands may carve, and seal 
With ease invade. — Virgil. 
HE rolling wheel, that runneth often ’round, Yet cannot I, with many a dropping tear, 
The hardest steel in tract of time doth tear; And long entreaty, soften her hard heart, 
And drizzling drops, that often do redound, That she will once vouchsafe my plaint to hear 
Firmest flint doth in continuance wear: Or look with pity on my painful smart. i 
— Spenser, 
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