 | William Bernard Cooke, Samuel Owen - 1811 - 384 Seiten
...Y704, Mr. Evelyn speaks, with a proud boast, of " an impregnable hedge," as he calls it, " of holly, four hundred Feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter ; which," continues he, " I can still shew in my now ruined garden at Sayes Court, '(thanks to the Czar of Muscovy,)... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 510 Seiten
...severest winters. He mentions a most glorious and impenetrable holly-hedge which he had at Sayes-court, four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which occasions his dropping a hint, that' the fine gardens he had raised there were wholly ruined by the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 528 Seiten
...severest winters. He mentions a most glorious an,d impenetrable holly-hedge which he had at Sayes-court, four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which occasions his dropping a hint, that the fine gardens he had raised there were wholly ruined by the... | |
 | 1816 - 420 Seiten
...would be preferred to the holly for this purpose V Evelyn thus speaks of his favourite holly :—* Is there, under heaven, a more glorious and refreshing object of the kind, than an impregnable hedge of Woodland Companion, p. MJ, about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five feet in diameter,... | |
 | 1820 - 774 Seiten
...houset,' says he, ' on Christmas and other festival days, with its cheerful green, and rutilant berries. Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing...kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred foot in length, nine foot high, and five in diameter, which I can now shew in my ruined gardens at... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 394 Seiten
...berries, ever observed to suffer from the severest of our winters. Mr. Evelyn's impregfnable holly-hedge, four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, has been much celebrated by himself, Ray, and othets. The wood of this tree is the whitest of all hard... | |
 | 1820 - 784 Seiten
...houses,' •ays he, ' on Christmas and other festival days, with its cheerful green, and nttilant berries. Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing...kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred foot in length, nine foot high, and five in diameter, which I can now shew in my rained gardens at... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 448 Seiten
...houses" says he, " on Christmas and other festival days, with its cheerful green, and rutilant berries. Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing...kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred foot in length, nine foot high, and five in diameter, which I can now shew in my ruined gardens at... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 360 Seiten
...to the cattle, nor the thief." Evelyn tells us, that his garden at Say's Court was surrounded with an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter ; " It mocks," says this worthy author, " the rudest assaults of the weather, beasts, or hedge-breakers;"... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 380 Seiten
...houses," says he, on Christmas and other festival days, with its cheerful green, and rutilant berries. Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing...kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred foot in length, nine foot high, and five in diameter, which I can now show in my ruined gardens at... | |
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