Arethusa might have eluded her lover. My own mental occupation, as we glided on, was the distribution of white villas along the shore, on spots where nature seemed to have arranged the ground for their reception. I saw thousands of sites where the lawns... A L'abri: Or The Tent Pitch'd - Էջ 134Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1839 - 172 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1849 - 392 էջ
...old voyager to choose between the shaded alleys, by either of which, you would think, Arethusa migh have eluded her lover. My own mental occupation, as...approaches to the water laid out, the banks sloped, and, in everything, the labor of art seemingly all anticipated by Nature. I grew tired of exclaiming, to the... | |
| William Wells Brown, William Farmer - 1852 - 354 էջ
...arrayed by Nature for the reception of the cottage of some happy family. During this ride, we passed many sites where the lawns were made, the terraces defined...the groves tastefully clumped, the ancient trees, though small when compared to our great forest oaks, were beautifully sprinkled here and there, and... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 398 էջ
...shore, on spots where Nature seemed < to have arranged the ground for their reception. I saw thousands J of sites where the lawns were made, the terraces defined...to the . water laid out, the banks sloped, and, in everything, the labor of art seemingly all anticipated by Nature. I grew tired of exclaiming, to the... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 396 էջ
...shore, on spots where Nature seemed to have arranged the ground for their reception. I saw thousands }f sites where the lawns were made, the terraces defined...approaches to the water laid out, the banks sloped, and, in everything, the labor of art seemingly . all anticipated by Nature. I grew tired of exclaiming, to... | |
| William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 էջ
...arrayed by nature for the reception of the cottage of some happy family. During this ride we passed many sites where the lawns were made, the terraces defined...the groves tastefully clumped, the ancient trees, though small when compared to our great forest oaks, were beautifully sprinkled here and there, and... | |
| John Archer - 2005 - 512 էջ
...Willis took a steamboat journey past the cities of the Susquehanna River, for example, he marveled at the distribution of white villas along the shore,...defined and levelled, the groves tastefully clumped, . . . and, in everything, the labor of art seemingly all anticipated by Nature. I grew tired of exclaiming,... | |
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