The Eastern Arboretum: Or, Register of Remarkable Trees, Seats, Gardens, &c. in the County of Norfolk : with Popular Delineations of the British Sylva |
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... forest scenery . " I am fond , " says Washington Irving , " of listening to the conversation of English gentlemen on rural concerns , and of noticing with what taste and discrimination , and what strong , unaffected interest , they will ...
... forest scenery . " I am fond , " says Washington Irving , " of listening to the conversation of English gentlemen on rural concerns , and of noticing with what taste and discrimination , and what strong , unaffected interest , they will ...
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... ; and that we scarcely could have selected any department in Nature calculated to afford us a better field for contemplation . Indeed , our forest - trees - have always been a subject of national interest ; PREFACE . vii.
... ; and that we scarcely could have selected any department in Nature calculated to afford us a better field for contemplation . Indeed , our forest - trees - have always been a subject of national interest ; PREFACE . vii.
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... forests , and be the means of heightening the beauty of plantations and pleasure - grounds already in existence . We have no desire to speak disparagingly of the nume- rous works already published on the subject of trees . The most of ...
... forests , and be the means of heightening the beauty of plantations and pleasure - grounds already in existence . We have no desire to speak disparagingly of the nume- rous works already published on the subject of trees . The most of ...
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... our object will be fulfilled , if we shall induce proprietors to keep up among the venerable chiefs of the forest something like an unbroken line of succession . OF TREES IN GENERAL . THE history of trees is 6 THE EASTERN ARBORETUM .
... our object will be fulfilled , if we shall induce proprietors to keep up among the venerable chiefs of the forest something like an unbroken line of succession . OF TREES IN GENERAL . THE history of trees is 6 THE EASTERN ARBORETUM .
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... forest , alike put on their sprightly covering , budding and blossoming like the rose . The cowslip and the violet , the daisy and the buttercup , are welcomed as old acquaintances the forerunners of the season ; telling us in beautiful ...
... forest , alike put on their sprightly covering , budding and blossoming like the rose . The cowslip and the violet , the daisy and the buttercup , are welcomed as old acquaintances the forerunners of the season ; telling us in beautiful ...
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adjoining admiration amongst ancient appearance Arboretum arborist ash-tree Aylsham beauty beech boughs branches cedar of Lebanon character chestnut church cluster pine common common hawthorn considerable Crataegus delightful distance districts elegant England English elm evergreen feet high feet in circumference feet in height finest five feet flowers foliage forest front garden girth grandeur green ground growing growth hall handsome inches in circumference land larch lawn leaves lofty Lombardy poplar magnificent mansion measuring Nature neighbourhood noble Norfolk Norwich notice object observed ornamental park perfect picturesque Pinus plantations planted pleasure-ground poplar present proprietor quarter racter residence rising scenery scenes Scotch pine season seat seen shelter shrubs side silver firs situated six inches sixteen feet soil species specimens spot stands stem Stratton Strawless surrounded sweet chestnut sylvan taste Taverham thriving timber tribe trunk twelve feet variety venerable verdure village weeping willow whilst Winfarthing wood worthy yards
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Page 104 - The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
Page 109 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Page v - As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and to breathe forth a purer atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth peace and philanthropy.
Page 110 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 111 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 197 - Here I am, probably for the last time of my life, though not for the last time, every clock that strikes tells me I am an hour nearer to yonder church — that church, into which I have not yet had courage to enter, where lies that mother on whom I doated, and who doated on me ! There are the two rival mistresses...
Page iv - It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is, if I may be allowed the figure, the heroic line of hushandry. It is worthy of liberal, and freeborn, and aspiring men.
Page 198 - What a dissonant idea of pleasure! those groves, those allees, where I have passed so many charming moments, are now stripped up or overgrown— many fond paths I could not unravel, though with a very exact...
Page 112 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Page vii - How many fond and how many lively thoughts have been nurtured under this tree ! how many kind hearts have beaten here ! Its branches are not so numerous as the couples they have invited to sit beside it, nor its blossoms and leaves as the expressions of tenderness it has witnessed. What appeals to the pure all-seeing heavens ! what similitudes to the everlasting mountains ! what protestations of eternal truth and constancy ! from those who now are earth ; they, and their shrouds, and their coffins...