 | George Walter Thornbury - 1893 - 656 Seiten
...alludes to this in the following passage in his ' Sylva,' wherein he asks, ' Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind,...nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can still show in my mined garden at Saye's Court (thanks to the Czar of Muscovy) at any time of the year,... | |
 | Mrs. Evelyn Cecil - 1896 - 436 Seiten
...had only been destined for hedges." Holly for a garden-hedge he also enthusiastically praises : — " Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing...object of the kind than an impregnable hedge of about 480 feet length, g feet high, and 5 feet in diameter, which I can show in my now ruined gardens at... | |
 | John Nisbet - 1900 - 394 Seiten
...incomparable Tree ; whether we will propagate it for Use, and Defence ; or for sight and ornament. ' Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing object of the kind, than an impregnable Hedge of one hundred and sixty foot in length, seven foot high, and five in diameter, which I can shew in my... | |
 | 1900 - 496 Seiten
...garden at Sayes Court, there was, to use Evelyn's own language, " a glorious and refreshing object, an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five feet in diameter, at any time of the year glittering with its armed and variegated leaves ; the taller... | |
 | 1900 - 514 Seiten
...garden at Sayes Court, there was, to use Evelyn's own language, " a glorious and refreshing object, an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five feet in diameter, at any time of the year glittering with its armed and variegated leaves; the taller... | |
 | Jean Allan Owen, George Simonds Boulger - 1902 - 508 Seiten
...wheelbarrow through it ? " Is there under the heavens," he asks, "any more glorious and refreshing object than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet...nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can still show at any time of the year in my ruined garden at Sayes Court (thanks to the Czar of Muscovy),... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1903 - 336 Seiten
...Plants, and expensive difficulties, to the neglect of the culture of this vulgar but incomparable tree. Is there under Heaven a more glorious and refreshing object of the kind than an impregnable Hedge of near three hundred foot in length, nine foot high, and five in diameter; which I can show in my poor... | |
 | George Simonds Boulger - 1907 - 286 Seiten
...known. " Is there under the heavens," he asks in his " Sylva," " any more glorious and refreshing object than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet...nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can still show at any time of the year in my ruined garden at Sayss Court (thanks to the Czar of Muscovy),... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1908 - 446 Seiten
...probably alludes to this in the following passage, wherein he asks, ' ' Is there, under the heavens, a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind,...nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can still show in my ruined garden at Saye's Court (thanks * In England the word " nasty " is used in the... | |
 | William Dallimore - 1908 - 418 Seiten
...Growing in his own garden was a Holly hedge of which he was inordinately proud, and of this he writes, " Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing...object of the kind than an impregnable hedge of about 400 feet in length, 9 feet high, and 5 feet in diameter, which I can show in my own ruined garden at... | |
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