| 1824 - 564 páginas
...following imperial anecdote : • 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... | |
| 1798 - 576 páginas
...fevereft winters. He mentions a moil glorious and impenetrable holly-hedge which he had at Sayes-court, four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which occafions his dropping a hint, that the fine gardens he had raifed there were wholly ruined by the... | |
| 1799 - 614 páginas
...Sylva, publidied by himfelf, in 1704: " Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreftiing objeft of the kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four...nine feet high, and five in diameter; which I can fliew in my now ruined garden at Sayescourt, (thanks to the ezar of Mufcovy,) at any time of the year,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1799 - 614 páginas
...publiflied by himfelf, in 1704: " Is there under heaven a more glorious and refrefhing objeft of the kipd, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet...nine feet high, and five in diameter ; which I can fliew in my now ruined garden at Sayescourt, (thanks to the czar of Mufcovy,) at any time of the year,... | |
| James Malcolm (land surveyor.) - 1805 - 532 páginas
...more glorious under heaven, and refreshing object of the kind, than an impenetrable hedge of about 400 feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can shew in my gardens at Says-court, at any time of the year, glittering with its armed and varnished... | |
| B. Lambert - 1806 - 624 páginas
...hedge of holly, which he thus enthusiastically describes in one of the later editions of his Sylva, " Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing...length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which 1 can show in my now ruined garden, at Sayes-court (thanks to the Czar of Muscovy) at any time of the... | |
| David Hughson - 1808 - 566 páginas
...great degree of enthusiasm, in one of the later editions of his Silva, published by himself in 1704-. " Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing...nine feet high, and five in diameter; which I can shew in my now mined garden at Saye's Court, (thanks to the czar of Muscovy) at any time of the year,... | |
| David Hughson - 1808 - 576 páginas
...great degree of enthusiasm, in one of the later editions of his Silva, published by himself in 1704. "Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing...nine feet high, and five in diameter ; which I can shew in my now ruined garden at Saye's Court, (thanks to the czar of Muscovy) at any time of the year,... | |
| Edward Pugh - 1808 - 572 páginas
...later editions of his Silva, published by himself in not. " Is there under heaven a more «*lorious and refreshing object of the kind, than an impregnable...feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter; wbjyh I can shew in my BOW tuined garden at Saye's Court, (thanks to the czar of. Muscovy) at any time... | |
| Daniel Lysons - 1811 - 512 páginas
...publimed by himfelf, in 1704 : " Is there under the heaven a more glorious and refrefhing ob" ject of the kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four...nine feet high, and five in diameter ; which I can mew in my now " ruined garden at Sayes-court, (thanks to the Czar of Mufcovy,) at any rime " of the... | |
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