 | Katharine Tynan, Frances Maitland - 1909 - 348 Seiten
...medicine for cattle. HOLLY Ilex Aquifolium "Is there under Heaven" cries John Evelyn in his " Silva," " a more glorious and refreshing object of the kind than an impregnable Hedge, [of Holly] of near three hundred foot in length and five in diameter which I can show in my poor gardens... | |
 | Carson Samuel Duncan - 1913 - 204 Seiten
...times the author injects an element of personal feeling into the passage. Of the holly he writes, — "Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing...the kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four » Ibid. p. 26. "Ibid. p. 96. hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I... | |
 | Alice Birkhead - 1915 - 220 Seiten
...through it with a barrow. It had been " a glorious and refreshing object " in its perfect state, being four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter. " Thanks to A t Sayes Court the Tsar " the garden was in ruins ; pictures had been destroyed, and hangings... | |
 | Louise Beebe Wilder - 1923 - 396 Seiten
...out of doors. I always enjoy Evelyn's prideful description of his famous Holly hedge at Says Court, "four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter . . . glittering with its armed and varnished leaves, and blushing with its natural coral— shorn... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 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... | |
 | Therese O'Malley, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn - 1998 - 332 Seiten
...Great was pushed back and forth through the holly hedge in a wheelbarrow. As Evelyn later recalled: Is there under Heaven a more glorious and refreshing Object of the kind, than an impregnable Hedge of about/our hundred foot in length, nine Foot high, and five in diameter; which I can shew in my now... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 522 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... | |
 | 1845 - 746 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... | |
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Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge... 
