The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 21R. Cadell, 1848 |
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Page 27
... appearance again at the same places . The unpleasing aspect of these walls may , in some degree , be got rid of by keeping them in hollows this , indeed , is to be recommended in every case ; and upon a large plan , where much ground is ...
... appearance again at the same places . The unpleasing aspect of these walls may , in some degree , be got rid of by keeping them in hollows this , indeed , is to be recommended in every case ; and upon a large plan , where much ground is ...
Page 31
... appearance on the ridge of a hill is also unfavourable , resembling the once fashionable mode of setting up the manes of ponies , called by jockeys hogging . But where the quantity of ground plant- ed amounts to the character of a ...
... appearance on the ridge of a hill is also unfavourable , resembling the once fashionable mode of setting up the manes of ponies , called by jockeys hogging . But where the quantity of ground plant- ed amounts to the character of a ...
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... appearance of your plan- tation is violated by the intrusion of your hatchet- men ; you look with regret on the hopeful tall plants , whose doom you are about to seal , and feel yourself in the same moment unable and unwilling to select ...
... appearance of your plan- tation is violated by the intrusion of your hatchet- men ; you look with regret on the hopeful tall plants , whose doom you are about to seal , and feel yourself in the same moment unable and unwilling to select ...
Page 68
... appearance of improvement , which rarely fails to surprise the spectator , and your firmness in the preceding season is compen- sated by the certain indications that large progress has been made in the accomplishment of your pa- triotic ...
... appearance of improvement , which rarely fails to surprise the spectator , and your firmness in the preceding season is compen- sated by the certain indications that large progress has been made in the accomplishment of your pa- triotic ...
Page 78
... appearance of the house and adjacent demesne will ever hold a very high place . Field - sports , at an early season in life , have more of immediate excitation ; nor are we amongst those who condemn the gallant chase , though we cannot ...
... appearance of the house and adjacent demesne will ever hold a very high place . Field - sports , at an early season in life , have more of immediate excitation ; nor are we amongst those who condemn the gallant chase , though we cannot ...
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acres advantage afford Allanton ancient appearance attended Banks bark beauty betwixt Blind Harry branches called castle character circumstances consequence considerable considered currency degree Earl earth Edinburgh England English exist expense exposed favour feet forest garden gold ground Highland HISTORY OF SCOTLAND honour improvement inhabitants interest King King of Scots kingdom labour land larch least Lord Hailes MALACHI MALAGROWTHER manner Matthew of Westminster means ment mode natural necessary neighbours object operation opinion ornament Patrick Fraser Tytler perhaps person Picts plant plantation planter possessed practice present principle profit proprietor purpose reason recommended rendered respect roots Roxburghe Club Scot Scotland Scottish shelter shillings shoot Sir Henry Steuart Sir Walter Scott situation soil species stem suppose taste tenant thinning tion transplanted trees Tytler Wallace whole wood
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 117 - That will never be. Who can impress" the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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,...
Page 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.
Page 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...