Gothic porch smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now, that we can hardly believe it possible, that a people who resembled us so... The Works of William Cowper, Esq: Comprising His Poems, Corrsepondence, and ... - Page 38by William Cowper - 1836Full view - About this book
| 1805 - 948 pages
...gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now, that we can hardly believe it possible,...their taste, should resemble us in any thing else. Bat in every thing else, I suppose, they were our counterpart* exactly ; and time, that has sewed up... | |
| 1804 - 452 pages
...gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, arc become so entirely unfashionable now, that we can hardly believe it possible,...sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk-hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...gardens and high walls, their box -edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now, that we can hardly believe it possible,...were our counterparts exactly, and time, that has tewed up the stashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk-hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...gardens. and high walls; their box edgings, halls of holly, and yew tree statues are become so entirely unfashionable now, that we can hardly believe it possible,...resemble us in any thing else. But in every thing else, 1 suppose, they were our counterparts exactly, and time, that has sewed up the slashed sleeve, and... | |
| Theology - 1820 - 688 pages
...gardens and high walls, their boxedgings, balls of holly, anJ yewtree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now, that we can hardly believe it possible,...should resemble us in any thing else. But in every tfcing else, I suppose, they wt-re our counterparts exactly, and (tfot, that has dewed up the slathrtt... | |
| Christian correspondent - 1837 - 350 pages
...gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now, that we can hardly believe it possible,...sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk-hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside... | |
| Author of The young man's own book - English letters - 1841 - 338 pages
...walls, their box-edgings, bulls of holly, and yewtree statues, are become so entirely unioshionablc, now, that we can hardly believe it possible, that...us so little in their taste, should resemble us in anything else. But in everything else, I suppose, they were our counterparts exactly ; and time, that... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 790 pages
...gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now, that we can hardly believe it possible...sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk-hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...unfashionable now, thai we can hardly believe il possible that a people who resembled us so liitle in their taste, should resemble us in any thing else....sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk-hose to a neat pair of silk Blockings, has left human nature just where it found it. The inside... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so entirely y _o({ty y' ^ ݍ ? iEStW ۑ uڶ < v o YuXY Ɇ k... { T, k Q ?W7 ֽ ]s { }u s u9 S uC ! & y I3 d 9 tiling else. But in every thing else, I suppose, they were our counterparts exactly : and time, that... | |
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