The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Հատոր 21R. Cadell, 1848 |
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... operations , and bring the tree , or the youth , to an earlier and higher degree of ma- turity than either would otherwise have obtained . But we think it equally plain , that the rules which are found most effectual are of a very ...
... operations , and bring the tree , or the youth , to an earlier and higher degree of ma- turity than either would otherwise have obtained . But we think it equally plain , that the rules which are found most effectual are of a very ...
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... operations in all of which a good woodsman ought to be so expert as to be capable of working at them by turns . 2dly . The planter , in the situation supposed , ought to be possessed of one nursery or more , as near to the ground ...
... operations in all of which a good woodsman ought to be so expert as to be capable of working at them by turns . 2dly . The planter , in the situation supposed , ought to be possessed of one nursery or more , as near to the ground ...
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... operations in all of which a good woodsman ought to be so expert as to be capable of working at them by turns . 2dly . The planter , in the situation supposed , ought to be possessed of one nursery or more , as near to the ground ...
... operations in all of which a good woodsman ought to be so expert as to be capable of working at them by turns . 2dly . The planter , in the situation supposed , ought to be possessed of one nursery or more , as near to the ground ...
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... . Thus provided with the material of his enter- prise , and with the human force necessary to carry it into effect , the planter's next point is to choose the scene of operation . On this subject , reason ON PLANTING WASTE LANDS . 15.
... . Thus provided with the material of his enter- prise , and with the human force necessary to carry it into effect , the planter's next point is to choose the scene of operation . On this subject , reason ON PLANTING WASTE LANDS . 15.
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Walter Scott. the scene of operation . On this subject , reason and common sense at once point out the necessary ... operations are generally more desirable than the pursuits of the forester . To confirm the proprietor in resisting this ...
Walter Scott. the scene of operation . On this subject , reason and common sense at once point out the necessary ... operations are generally more desirable than the pursuits of the forester . To confirm the proprietor in resisting this ...
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Էջ 34 - ... crash And merciless ravage: and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being: and unless I now Confound my present feelings with the past...
Էջ 48 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Էջ 320 - if these things be done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry ?" Excuse me for employing a sentence of Scripture on this occasion ; I apply it very seriously.
Էջ 117 - That will never be. Who can impress" the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?
Էջ 354 - I found excellent meat and drink o" the table ; my clothes were never worn out, but next morning a tailor brought me a new suit: and without question it will be so ever; use makes perfectness.
Էջ 45 - Sick of his civil pride from morn to eve ; I curse such lavish cost and little skill, And swear no day was ever pass'd so ill. Yet hence the poor are clothed, the hungry fed; Health to himself, and to his infants bread, The labourer bears : what his hard heart denies, His charitable vanity supplies.
Էջ 60 - ... the huntsmen might ride along the said walks, and meet or overtake their game in some one of them, they being cut with that art, that they led to all the parts in the said forest...
Էջ 53 - Vitruvius, the enriched entablatures and superb stairs of the Italian school of gardening, we must not, on this account, be construed as vindicating the paltry imitations of the Dutch, who clipped yews into monsters of every species and description, and relieved them with the painted wooden figures which are seen much in the attitude of their owners, silent and snugly smoking at the end of the paltry walk of every Lust-huys. This topiarian art, as it was called, came into England with King William,...
Էջ 44 - O blind of choice and to yourselves untrue ! The young grove shoots, their bloom the fields renew, The mansion asks its lord, the swains their friend ; While he doth riot's orgies haply share, Or tempt the gamester's dark, destroying snare, Or at some courtly shrine with slavish incense bend.
Էջ 43 - The Planter's Guide; or, a Practical Essay on the best Method of giving immediate Effect to Wood, by the Removal of large Trees...