The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 21R. Cadell, 1848 |
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Page 20
... never either stiff or formal . In this manner , the future woods will advance and recede from the eye , according to and along with the sweep of the hills and banks which support them , thus occupying precisely the place in the ...
... never either stiff or formal . In this manner , the future woods will advance and recede from the eye , according to and along with the sweep of the hills and banks which support them , thus occupying precisely the place in the ...
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... never be so well lined as before the wood is planted , this preliminary season is unquestionably by far the most proper . It is needless to say that the forma- tion and direction of such paths and drives is one of the most agreeable ...
... never be so well lined as before the wood is planted , this preliminary season is unquestionably by far the most proper . It is needless to say that the forma- tion and direction of such paths and drives is one of the most agreeable ...
Page 39
... never fails greatly to retard the growth of the plant . The planter ought to fill in the earth with the same care ; and having trod it down in the usual manner , he cuts the turf in two with his spade , and places one half on each side ...
... never fails greatly to retard the growth of the plant . The planter ought to fill in the earth with the same care ; and having trod it down in the usual manner , he cuts the turf in two with his spade , and places one half on each side ...
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... never observed that the plant has any tendency to renew the branches removed at this season . But where the same cut is inflicted in winter , the plant is apt to suffer from the action of the frost upon the raw wound ; and , moreover ...
... never observed that the plant has any tendency to renew the branches removed at this season . But where the same cut is inflicted in winter , the plant is apt to suffer from the action of the frost upon the raw wound ; and , moreover ...
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... never intended . Eden was created by the Almighty fiat , which called heaven and earth into existence , and poets of genius much inferior , and falling far short of Milton in the power of expressing their meaning , would have avoided ...
... never intended . Eden was created by the Almighty fiat , which called heaven and earth into existence , and poets of genius much inferior , and falling far short of Milton in the power of expressing their meaning , would have avoided ...
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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...