| 1907 - 584 Seiten
...coolness of the shade with the warmth of the sun. . . . In one place you have a little meadow, in another, the box is cut into a thousand different forms, sometimes into letters, expressing the name of the master. ... At the upper end is an alcove of white marble, shaded by vines, supported by four small Carystian... | |
| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - 424 Seiten
...introduced among the Romans at a time, when one should little expect to meet with any inelegancies in the expressing the name of the master ; sometimes that...there little obelisks rise intermixed alternately with fruit-trees: when, on a sudden, in the midst of this elegant regularity, you are surprised with an... | |
| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809 - 340 Seiten
...one place, you have a little meadow ; in another, the box is cut into a thousand different forms ;t sometimes into letters, expressing the name of the...artificer: whilst here and there little obelisks rise inter* Here seems to begin what we properly call the Garden, and is the only description of a Roman... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 Seiten
...In one place yon have a little meadow ; in another the box is cut into a thousand different forms t; sometimes into letters, expressing the name of the...there little obelisks rise intermixed alternately with fruit-trees: when, on a sudden, in the midst of this elegant regularity, you are surprised with an... | |
| Romans - 1821 - 366 Seiten
...into a variety of others, divided by box-hedges. In one place, you have a little meadow} in another, the box is cut into a thousand different forms; sometimes...there little obelisks rise intermixed alternately with fruit-trees : when, on a sudden, in the midst of this elegant regularity, you are surprised with an... | |
| 1821 - 376 Seiten
...into a variety of others, divided by box-hedges. In one place, you have a little meadow; in another, the box is cut into a thousand different forms; sometimes...there little obelisks rise intermixed alternately with fruit-trees : when, on a sudden, in the midst of this elegant regularity, you are surprised with an... | |
| George William Johnson - 1829 - 476 Seiten
...into a variety of others divided off by box hedges. In one place you have a little meadow ; in another the Box is cut into a thousand different [forms ;...intermixed alternately with fruit Trees ; when on a sudden you are surprised with an imitation of the negligent beauties of rural Nature, in the centre of which... | |
| George William Johnson - 1829 - 466 Seiten
...into a variety of others divided off by box hedges. In one place you have a little meadow ; in another the Box is cut into a thousand different forms ; sometimes...intermixed alternately with fruit Trees ; when on a sudden you are surprised with an imitation of the negligent beauties of rural Natore, in the centre of which... | |
| George Clarke (F.S.A.) - 1832 - 390 Seiten
...into a variety of others, divided by box hedges. In one place you have a little meadow; in another, the box is cut into a thousand different forms ; sometimes into letters, here expressing the name of the master, there that of the artificer, while here and there little obelisks... | |
| 1834 - 754 Seiten
...Roman, for they clipped their shrubs into forms of animals, pillars, &c. The box, Pliny tells us, " was cut into a thousand different forms ; sometimes into...little obelisks rise intermixed alternately with fruit trees."1 c See it described in Gent. Mag. vol. cm. pt. ii. p. 63. d Pompeiana, vol. I. p. 148. •... | |
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