 | Books - 1824 - 564 pages
...• Evelyn tells us, that his garden at Say's Court was surrounded with an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter : " it mocks," says this worthy author, " the rudest assaults of the weather, beasts, or hedge-breakers... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 576 pages
...living without doors, but of {landing unhurt by the rigour of our fevereft winters. He mentions a moil glorious and impenetrable holly-hedge which he had...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 the... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1799 - 614 pages
...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 time of... | |
 | English literature - 1799 - 614 pages
...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 of... | |
 | B. Lambert - London (England) - 1806 - 624 pages
...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 of the... | |
 | David Hughson - London (England) - 1808 - 566 pages
...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 of the... | |
 | David Hughson - London (England) - 1808 - 576 pages
...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 time of... | |
 | Edward Pugh - 1808 - 572 pages
...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... | |
 | William Bernard Cooke, Samuel Owen - Great Britain - 1811 - 384 pages
...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 Czar of Muscovy,)... | |
 | Daniel Lysons - London (England) - 1811 - 512 pages
...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 rime "... | |
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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... 
