 | 1836 - 456 pages
...their funeral, testified a more than ordinary commiseration of their awful fate. Devonshire Cottages. I know not any county in England where this taste...children ; and the little garden, besides its complement or hollyhocks, £c., has a bed or two of flowers before the house of the most brilliant colours. A... | |
 | 1836 - 444 pages
....cottage is as pretty an object as you could desire to see. The walls, generally of stone, are grey, and abound with lichen, stone-crop, or moss. Many of these...; and the little garden, besides its complement of holyhocks, &c., has a bed or two of flowers before the house of the most brilliant colours. A bee-hive,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 590 pages
...it was the custom in those parts': — ' I know not any county in England' — Mrs. Bray says — ' where this taste for a garden with the peasantry is...creeping on its top. A bird-cage at the door is often the dey 2 light light of the children ; and the little garden, besides its complement of hollyhocks, &c.,has... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 596 pages
...more universal than in the west. A Devonshire cottage, if not too modern, is the sweetest object fhat the poet, the artist, or the lover of the romantic...little garden, besides its complement of hollyhocks, &c.,has a bed or two of flowers before the house, of the most brilliant colours. A bee-hive, and the... | |
 | British empire - 1847 - 856 pages
...artist, or the lover of the romantic could desire to see. The walls, generally of stone, are gray, and if not whitewashed (which they too often are),...rose, mantling its sides and creeping on its top. A bird-cnge at the door is often the delight of the children ; and the little garden, besides its complement... | |
 | Thomas Spargo - Copper mines and mining - 1865 - 272 pages
...the romantic could desire to see. The walls, generally of stone, are grey, and if not whitewashed, abound with lichen, stone-crop, or moss. Many" of...has its ivy, its jessamine, or its rose mantling its tides nnd creeping on its top ; the little garden, besides its complement of hollyhocks, &c., has a... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1879 - 458 pages
...lattice, or the stately hollyhock and the gorgeous sun-flower that deck the slip of ground before the door — flowers which, like noble persons in their...little garden. besides its complement of hollyhocks, has a bed or two of flowers before the house of the most brilliant colours. A bee-hive, and the elder,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 580 pages
...said it was the custom in those parts': — ' I know not any county in England' — Mrs. Bray says — 'where this taste for a garden with the peasantry...little garden, besides its complement of hollyhocks, &c.,has a bed or two of flowers before the house, of the most brilliant colours. A bee-hive, and the... | |
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England where this taste for a garden with the peasantry is more universal than in the West. A Devonshire cottage, if not too modern, is the sweetest object that the poet, the artist, or the lover of the romantic could desire to see. The walls, generally... 