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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... young and giddy throngs that flit around them . What sermons do they preach to the observant ! In their decay they tell us that we , like them , must go the way of all things mutable , and that the blasts of fourscore winters at ...
... young and giddy throngs that flit around them . What sermons do they preach to the observant ! In their decay they tell us that we , like them , must go the way of all things mutable , and that the blasts of fourscore winters at ...
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... young trees in a highly vigorous state , though none deserving of particular remark either as to their size or rareness . Mrs. Martineau's residence , at Bracondale , presents us with a perfect picture of an extensive and beautifully se ...
... young trees in a highly vigorous state , though none deserving of particular remark either as to their size or rareness . Mrs. Martineau's residence , at Bracondale , presents us with a perfect picture of an extensive and beautifully se ...
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... young , -for nurse it must have . The fact is , it is exceedingly tender in its infant state it is then a delicate , unpromising child ; but , as we have said , it picks up a good constitution somehow , and outlives every thing of the ...
... young , -for nurse it must have . The fact is , it is exceedingly tender in its infant state it is then a delicate , unpromising child ; but , as we have said , it picks up a good constitution somehow , and outlives every thing of the ...
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... young oaks will suffer . Those trees will of course require to be re- moved gradually as they increase in size , until the ground is studded with them at distances of thirty feet square from each other , the usual space allotted to them ...
... young oaks will suffer . Those trees will of course require to be re- moved gradually as they increase in size , until the ground is studded with them at distances of thirty feet square from each other , the usual space allotted to them ...
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... young , and indeed it is in vain to attempt its growth in situations which have not this advantage . On the other hand , we must guard against plantations being allowed to suffer through negligence in pruning and thinning , thus ...
... young , and indeed it is in vain to attempt its growth in situations which have not this advantage . On the other hand , we must guard against plantations being allowed to suffer through negligence in pruning and thinning , thus ...
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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...