The Eastern Arboretum: Or, Register of Remarkable Trees, Seats, Gardens, &c. in the County of Norfolk : with Popular Delineations of the British SylvaLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1841 - 371 páginas |
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... things have been said of trees . Landor , in his Conversations , has the following remarkable passages : Ah , Don ... thing great on earth , crouches and cowers in its presence .... it passes away and vanishes before venerable trees ...
... things have been said of trees . Landor , in his Conversations , has the following remarkable passages : Ah , Don ... thing great on earth , crouches and cowers in its presence .... it passes away and vanishes before venerable trees ...
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... thing that lives in our climate will find a soil here congenial to its nature . Its capabilities in this respect are immense . Our elevated waste lands are adapted to the pine and fir tribes ; our deep loams , such as abound in the ...
... thing that lives in our climate will find a soil here congenial to its nature . Its capabilities in this respect are immense . Our elevated waste lands are adapted to the pine and fir tribes ; our deep loams , such as abound in the ...
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... thing would be thought wonderful and very beautiful , no doubt ; yet the wonder is that we do not see it every day of our lives , for it is as natural for this tree to flourish in such soil as it is for the white globe turnip to grow on ...
... thing would be thought wonderful and very beautiful , no doubt ; yet the wonder is that we do not see it every day of our lives , for it is as natural for this tree to flourish in such soil as it is for the white globe turnip to grow on ...
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... most uninviting thing in existence , and as if its beautiful fabric , root and branch , were to be valued only in proportion to the extent of flooring , or the B 2 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS . 3 of liquid-amber, banana, Mexican oaks, ...
... most uninviting thing in existence , and as if its beautiful fabric , root and branch , were to be valued only in proportion to the extent of flooring , or the B 2 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS . 3 of liquid-amber, banana, Mexican oaks, ...
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... thing as armed leaves after the disarming and destroying hedge - scissors have passed over them ? This , after all , is but a trifling fault of the great man ; and we should be sorry to be thought to display the slightest inclination to ...
... thing as armed leaves after the disarming and destroying hedge - scissors have passed over them ? This , after all , is but a trifling fault of the great man ; and we should be sorry to be thought to display the slightest inclination to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adjoining admiration amongst ancient appearance Arboretum arborist ash-tree Aylsham beauty beech boughs branches cedar of Lebanon character chestnut church cluster pine common common hawthorn considerable Crataegus delightful distance districts elegant England English elm evergreen feet high feet in circumference feet in height finest five feet flowers foliage forest front garden girth grandeur green ground growing growth hall handsome inches in circumference land larch lawn leaves lofty Lombardy poplar magnificent mansion measuring Nature neighbourhood noble Norfolk Norwich notice object observed ornamental park perfect picturesque Pinus plantations planted pleasure-ground poplar present proprietor quarter racter residence rising scenery scenes Scotch pine season seat seen shelter shrubs side silver firs situated six inches sixteen feet soil species specimens spot stands stem Stratton Strawless surrounded sweet chestnut sylvan taste Taverham thriving timber tribe trunk twelve feet variety venerable verdure village weeping willow whilst Winfarthing wood worthy yards
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Página 104 - The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
Página 109 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Página v - As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and to breathe forth a purer atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth peace and philanthropy.
Página 110 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Página 111 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Página 197 - Here I am, probably for the last time of my life, though not for the last time, every clock that strikes tells me I am an hour nearer to yonder church — that church, into which I have not yet had courage to enter, where lies that mother on whom I doated, and who doated on me ! There are the two rival mistresses...
Página iv - It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is, if I may be allowed the figure, the heroic line of hushandry. It is worthy of liberal, and freeborn, and aspiring men.
Página 198 - What a dissonant idea of pleasure! those groves, those allees, where I have passed so many charming moments, are now stripped up or overgrown— many fond paths I could not unravel, though with a very exact...
Página 112 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Página vii - How many fond and how many lively thoughts have been nurtured under this tree ! how many kind hearts have beaten here ! Its branches are not so numerous as the couples they have invited to sit beside it, nor its blossoms and leaves as the expressions of tenderness it has witnessed. What appeals to the pure all-seeing heavens ! what similitudes to the everlasting mountains ! what protestations of eternal truth and constancy ! from those who now are earth ; they, and their shrouds, and their coffins...