 | 1824 - Страниц: 564
...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 - Страниц: 576
...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 - Страниц: 614
...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 hundred feet...my now ruined garden at Sayescourt, (thanks to the ezar of Mufcovy,) at any time of the year, glittering with its armed and varniftied leaves ; the taller... | |
 | James Malcolm (land surveyor.) - 1805 - Страниц: 532
...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 - Страниц: 624
...later editions of his Sylva, " Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing object of the kind, than an impregnable hedge of about' four hundred feet...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 - Страниц: 576
...published by himself in 1704. "Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing object of the kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet...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,... | |
 | David Hughson - 1808 - Страниц: 566
...published by himself in 1704-. " Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing object of the kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet...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,... | |
 | Edward Pugh - 1808 - Страниц: 572
...published by himself in not. " Is there under heaven a more «*lorious and refreshing object of the kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred 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 - Страниц: 512
...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 hundred feet...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... | |
 | William Bernard Cooke, Samuel Owen - 1811 - Страниц: 384
...Y704, Mr. Evelyn speaks, with a proud boast, of " an impregnable hedge," as he calls it, " of holly, four hundred Feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter ; which," continues he, " I can still shew in my now ruined garden at Sayes Court, '(thanks to the Czar of Muscovy,)... | |
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Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge, of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can... 
