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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... wind . But it requires considerable ingenuity to hinder these elevations from having the ap- pearance of artificial ones , which would make them as ridiculous as a circular lake on a lawn . As the removal of earth is attended by the ...
... wind . But it requires considerable ingenuity to hinder these elevations from having the ap- pearance of artificial ones , which would make them as ridiculous as a circular lake on a lawn . As the removal of earth is attended by the ...
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... insipid and gloomy when confined for any distance . The winds also claim our attention . Care must be taken so to arrange the position of the trees , that c 4 INTRODUCTION . 23 may be considerably increased by the proper ...
... insipid and gloomy when confined for any distance . The winds also claim our attention . Care must be taken so to arrange the position of the trees , that c 4 INTRODUCTION . 23 may be considerably increased by the proper ...
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... winds seldom disunite them from their support . Some plants climb by means of a hook in their leaf - stalk , or have a kind of vegetable hand given them , by which they are assisted in mounting , as the pea and several others . To ...
... winds seldom disunite them from their support . Some plants climb by means of a hook in their leaf - stalk , or have a kind of vegetable hand given them , by which they are assisted in mounting , as the pea and several others . To ...
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... view of gay plantations of early daffodils , that shake their golden heads to the winds of February . Whilst occupied in this gay assortment , let us not forget that " There is a flower , a little flower , 30 INTRODUCTION .
... view of gay plantations of early daffodils , that shake their golden heads to the winds of February . Whilst occupied in this gay assortment , let us not forget that " There is a flower , a little flower , 30 INTRODUCTION .
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... windy summit , wild and high , Roughly rushing on the sky ! The pleasant seat , the ruin'd tower The naked rock , the shady bower , The town and village , dome and farm ; Each give to each a double charm , As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm ...
... windy summit , wild and high , Roughly rushing on the sky ! The pleasant seat , the ruin'd tower The naked rock , the shady bower , The town and village , dome and farm ; Each give to each a double charm , As pearls upon an Ethiop's arm ...
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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...