Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with Observations on the Formation of Ornamental Plantations, and Picturesque Scenery, Volumen 1Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 333 páginas |
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... style of garden to that which they had been accustomed to in Italy . But this would be lost in baronial times , when nothing was secure outside the castle walls . However , gardens of consi- derable extent INTRODUCTION . 15.
... style of garden to that which they had been accustomed to in Italy . But this would be lost in baronial times , when nothing was secure outside the castle walls . However , gardens of consi- derable extent INTRODUCTION . 15.
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... shrubs has continued to increase . Charles II . returned from the Continent with a taste completely French ; and Evelyn also , from his travels through France and Italy , during the Commonwealth , imbibed similar ideas . 16 INTRODUCTION .
... shrubs has continued to increase . Charles II . returned from the Continent with a taste completely French ; and Evelyn also , from his travels through France and Italy , during the Commonwealth , imbibed similar ideas . 16 INTRODUCTION .
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... Italy , during the Commonwealth , imbibed similar ideas . Thus our plantations at that time consisted entirely of long , dull avenues , and our pleasure - gardens of clipped hedges , walks laid out upon geometrical principles , and ever ...
... Italy , during the Commonwealth , imbibed similar ideas . Thus our plantations at that time consisted entirely of long , dull avenues , and our pleasure - gardens of clipped hedges , walks laid out upon geometrical principles , and ever ...
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... Italians Alno , Ontano ; the Spaniards Aliso , Alamo ; the Portugueze Alemo ; the Russians Olcha ; the Polanders Olsza ; and the Latins Alnus and Alnos , which is thought to be abridged from alor amne : - " I am nourished by the stream ...
... Italians Alno , Ontano ; the Spaniards Aliso , Alamo ; the Portugueze Alemo ; the Russians Olcha ; the Polanders Olsza ; and the Latins Alnus and Alnos , which is thought to be abridged from alor amne : - " I am nourished by the stream ...
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... Italy , one of Aleppo , and four different species have been imported from North America . The manna ash , fraxinus rotundifolia , is in- digenous to Italy , and is found in great abun- dance in the lower parts of Calabria , where it ...
... Italy , one of Aleppo , and four different species have been imported from North America . The manna ash , fraxinus rotundifolia , is in- digenous to Italy , and is found in great abun- dance in the lower parts of Calabria , where it ...
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Página 101 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 258 - To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys...
Página 284 - Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge, of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can...
Página 36 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view ! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody...
Página 123 - ... mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name: Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; They grieven sore in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the...
Página 234 - The gloomy pine, the poplar blue, The yellow beech, the sable yew, The slender fir, that taper grows, The sturdy oak with broad-spread boughs.
Página 72 - Not a tree, A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains A folio volume. We may read, and read, And read again, and still find something new, Something to please, and something to instruct, E'en in the noisome weed.
Página 129 - But should he hide his face, the astonish'd sun, And all the extinguish'd stars, would, loosening, reel Wide from their spheres, and Chaos come again. And yet was every faltering tongue of man, Almighty Father ! silent in Thy praise, Thy works themselves would raise a general voice, Even in the depth of solitary woods By human foot untrod ; proclaim Thy power, And to the choir celestial Thee resound, The eternal Cause, Support, and End of all...
Página 269 - Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow. At evening a keen eastern breeze arose ; And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn...