Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with Observations on the Formation of Ornamental Plantations, and Picturesque Scenery, Volume 2 |
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Page 10
... measured two feet square in thick- ness throughout , from end to end , and was of the extraordinary length of 120 feet ; the tree must therefore have been not less than from 130 to 150 feet in height . Tiberius Cæsar would not allow ...
... measured two feet square in thick- ness throughout , from end to end , and was of the extraordinary length of 120 feet ; the tree must therefore have been not less than from 130 to 150 feet in height . Tiberius Cæsar would not allow ...
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... measured , at one foot eight inches from the ground , eleven feet eleven inches in circum- ference , and at twelve feet from the ground , eight feet two inches , at twenty - four feet the circumference was seven feet seven inches ; at ...
... measured , at one foot eight inches from the ground , eleven feet eleven inches in circum- ference , and at twelve feet from the ground , eight feet two inches , at twenty - four feet the circumference was seven feet seven inches ; at ...
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... measured above twenty feet in height on an average : the trees were from six to nine inches high when planted . At twelve years old they measured , on an average , from thirty- four to thirty - six feet in height ; and this in- crease ...
... measured above twenty feet in height on an average : the trees were from six to nine inches high when planted . At twelve years old they measured , on an average , from thirty- four to thirty - six feet in height ; and this in- crease ...
Page 57
... measured twen- ty - five and a half feet , and was to the upper- most branch , ninety feet in height . ( The measurement of this tree was sent to Evelyn by Sir Thomas Brown of Norwich . ) Switzerland is celebrated by Evelyn for its ...
... measured twen- ty - five and a half feet , and was to the upper- most branch , ninety feet in height . ( The measurement of this tree was sent to Evelyn by Sir Thomas Brown of Norwich . ) Switzerland is celebrated by Evelyn for its ...
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... measured eleven feet in height , and spread ten feet in breadth , the stem near the ground was eighteen inches in girth . This tree for- merly belonged to Mr. Whicher of Petworth , and is known to be considerably upwards of forty years ...
... measured eleven feet in height , and spread ten feet in breadth , the stem near the ground was eighteen inches in girth . This tree for- merly belonged to Mr. Whicher of Petworth , and is known to be considerably upwards of forty years ...
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Page 217 - One Spirit — his, Who wore the platted thorns with bleeding brows. Rules universal nature. Not a flower But shows some touch in freckle, streak, or stain, Of his unrivalled pencil.
Page 286 - Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth; Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 173 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 174 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Page 163 - Go, LOVELY rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 43 - And of an humbler growth, the other tall, And throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring cypress or more sable yew Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf That the wind severs from the broken wave ; The lilac, various in array, now white, Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set With purple spikes pyramidal, as if Studious of ornament, yet unresolved Which hue she most approved, she chose them all...
Page 266 - In genial spring, beneath the quiv'ring shade, Where cooling vapours breathe along the mead, The patient fisher takes his silent stand, Intent, his angle trembling in his hand: With looks unmov'd, he hopes the scaly breed, And eyes the dancing cork, and bending reed.
Page 287 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 262 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 206 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ! Not, chaos-like, together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.