 | 1824 - 564 דפים
...— The fitness of the Holly for a hedge is well illustrated by the following imperial anecdote : • Evelyn tells us, that his garden at Say's Court was...belonging to his garden that was not destroyed by the Czar of Muscovy. Mr. Evelyn had lent his house to Peter the Great, in order that he might be near the... | |
 | 1798 - 576 דפים
...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1799 - 614 דפים
...by himfelf, in 1704: " Is there under heaven a more glorious and refrefhing objeft of the kipd, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in' length, nine feet high, and five in diameter ; which I can fliew in my now ruined garden at Sayescourt, (thanks to the czar of Mufcovy,) at any... | |
 | 1799 - 614 דפים
...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 in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter; which I can fliew in my now ruined garden at Sayescourt, (thanks to the ezar of Mufcovy,) at any time... | |
 | B. Lambert - 1806 - 624 דפים
...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 in 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... | |
 | David Hughson - 1808 - 566 דפים
...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 in length, 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... | |
 | Edward Pugh - 1808 - 572 דפים
...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... | |
 | David Hughson - 1808 - 576 דפים
...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 in length, 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... | |
 | Daniel Lysons - 1811 - 512 דפים
...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 in " length, 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... | |
 | William Bernard Cooke, Samuel Owen - 1811 - 384 דפים
...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... | |
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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... 
