 ... declivity, preserves it always so dry that immediately after the most violent rain a fine lady may walk without wetting her silken shoes. The fertility of the place is apparent from its extraordinary verdure, and it is so shaded with large and flourishing...  The Isle of Wight visitor's book - Page 22by Wight Isle of - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Henry Fielding - 1755 - 260 pages
...fhaded with large and flourifhing elms, that its harrow lanes are a natural grove or walk, which in tke regularity of its plantation. vies with the power of art, and in its wanexuberancy greatly exceeds it.. • IN a field, in the afcent of this hill, about a quarter of a... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...the place is apparent from its extraordinary verdure, and it is so shaded with large and flourishing elms that its narrow lanes are a natural grove or...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it. Io a field in the ascent of this hill, about a quarter of a mile from... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 400 pages
...the place Is apparent from its extraordinary verdure, and it is so shaded with large and flourishing elms, that its narrow lanes are a natural grove or...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it. In a field, in the ascent of this hill, about a quartn of a mile from... | |
 | 1816
...situated amid a lawn and flower garden ; but from want of elevation precluded from the inland views row lanes are a natural grove or walk, which in the regularity...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it." I am the more induced to give these extracts, as this work has experienced... | |
 | 1816 - 598 pages
...situated amid a lawn and flower-garden ; but from want of elevation precluded from the inland views row lanes are a natural grove or walk, which in the regularity of its plantation vies with the power of ait, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it." I am the more ir.duccd to give these extracts,... | |
 | 1856 - 586 pages
...says, " is apparent from its extraordinary verdure, and it is so shaded with large and flourishing elms, that its narrow lanes are a natural grove or...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it." All this is changed. The narrow lanes have become wide roads, and the... | |
 | 1861 - 336 pages
...Route 1. RYDE—PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 829 grove or walk, which. in the regularity of its plantation rises with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberance greatly exceeds it." The PUBLIC BUILDINGS of the town are few and unimportant. The most pretentious is the TOWN HALL and... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1862 - 282 pages
...affords that charming prospect I have above described. Its soil is a gravel, which, associated with its declivity, preserves it always so dry, that immediately...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it."— Fielding. ..1845 1. The Pier, built ................ 1814 !!. Steam... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1864 - 284 pages
...the place is apparent from its extraordinary verdure, and it is so shaded with large and flourishing elms that its narrow lanes are a natural grove or...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it."— Fielding. The progress of the town since the days of Fielding may... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1870 - 960 pages
...death-bed at Lisbon the following year. " It is so shaded," he wrote, " with large and flourishing elms that its narrow lanes are a natural grove or...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it." Fielding was justified in his admiration of the elms, which, with their... | |
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