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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... particularly to the shades of green , especially where the view from the house or lawn catches the trees . Flowers , which Pliny calls the joys of the trees , con- tinue but for a short period , in comparison to the duration of foliage ...
... particularly to the shades of green , especially where the view from the house or lawn catches the trees . Flowers , which Pliny calls the joys of the trees , con- tinue but for a short period , in comparison to the duration of foliage ...
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... particularly if sud- den , adds greatly to the cheerfulness of the terminating view . Bad taste is seldom more conspicuous than when we see trees or plants marshalled in regular order and at equal distances , like beaux and belles ...
... particularly if sud- den , adds greatly to the cheerfulness of the terminating view . Bad taste is seldom more conspicuous than when we see trees or plants marshalled in regular order and at equal distances , like beaux and belles ...
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... particularly when allowed to exhibit it's golden blossoms at the foot of some dark- foliaged evergreen . Among the trees of the back - ground , the wych elm , the alder , the willow , and the osier , flower in March . the same period ...
... particularly when allowed to exhibit it's golden blossoms at the foot of some dark- foliaged evergreen . Among the trees of the back - ground , the wych elm , the alder , the willow , and the osier , flower in March . the same period ...
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... particularly adapted to ornament the modern villa ; it's light and loose foliage , that pleasingly admits the light , seems to harmonize better with the trellis work of the viranda than any other flowering tree , while the grace of it's ...
... particularly adapted to ornament the modern villa ; it's light and loose foliage , that pleasingly admits the light , seems to harmonize better with the trellis work of the viranda than any other flowering tree , while the grace of it's ...
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... particularly if they be pruned of their superfluous shoots in the spring . " As alders in the spring , their boles extend , And heave so fiercely , that the bark they rend . ” 2 VIRGIL . It is no small recommendation to these trees ...
... particularly if they be pruned of their superfluous shoots in the spring . " As alders in the spring , their boles extend , And heave so fiercely , that the bark they rend . ” 2 VIRGIL . It is no small recommendation to these trees ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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 260 - 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 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 236 - 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 286 - 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 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 271 - 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...
Página 217 - No monstrous height, or breadth, or length appear; The whole at once is bold, and regular. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.