 ... as was the expanse taken in by the eye, it was evidently one princely possession. A mile from the Castle wall, the shaven sward extended in a carpet of velvet softness, as bright as emerald, studded by clumps of shrubbery, like flowers wrought elegantly...  Manners and Customs of the Principal Nations of the Globe - Pagina 72door Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 352 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 pagina’s
...the dinner-hour was seven precisely. ' It was a mild, bright afternoon, quite warm for the end of _an English September ; and with a fire in the room, and...sight, with his gun in the hollow of his arm, and his hounds at his heels. And all this little world of enjoyment and luxury, and teauty, lay in the hand... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 608 pagina’s
...deer grazed near them ; the trees were planted, and the distant forest shaped, by the hand of t&ste ; and broad and beautiful as was the expanse taken in...sight, with his gun in the hollow of his arm, and his hounds at his heels. And all this little world of enjoyment and luxury, and beauty, lay in the hand... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1835 - 1350 pagina’s
...of •••era wtoagkt elegantly on tapestry ; «*> *'A :" it bounded occasionally a hare, and the fed undisturbed near the thickets, or a lady with...sight with his gun in the hollow of his arm, and his hounds at his heels — and all this little world of enjoyment and luxury and beauty lay in the hand... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1836 - 686 pagina’s
...feather dashed into sight upon her fleet blood palfrey, and was lost the next moment in the woods, иг a boy put his pony to its mettle up the ascent, or...gamekeeper idled into sight with his gun in the hollow o: his arm and this hounds at his heels : and all this little world of enjoyment and luxury and beauty... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1836 - 348 pagina’s
...bounded occasionally a hare, and the pheasants fed undisturbed near the thickets, or a lady with a flowing riding-dress and flaunting feather, dashed...blood-palfrey, and was lost the next moment in the woods, or a hoy put his pony to its mettle up the ascent, or a game-keeper idled into sight with his gun in the... | |
 | 1835 - 610 pagina’s
...terrible stir-up in his way out, and turning back to inform me that the dinner-hour was seven precisely. ' It was a mild, bright afternoon, quite warm for the...sight, with his gun in the hollow of his arm, and his hounds at his heels. And all this little world of enjoyment and luxury, and beauty, lay in the hand... | |
 | William Howitt - 1838 - 448 pagina’s
...velvet softness, as bright as emerald, studded by clumps of shrubbery, like flowers wrought elegantly in tapestry ; and across it bounded occasionally a hare,...sight with his gun in the hollow of his arm, and his hounds at his heels. And all this little world of enjoyment and luxury and beauty lay in the hand of... | |
 | William Howitt - 1838 - 428 pagina’s
...as emerald, studded by clumps of shrubbery,/ like flowers wrought elegantly in tapestry; and acrosp it bounded occasionally a hare, and the pheasants...sight with his gun in the hollow of his arm, and his hounds at his heels. And all this littlejvorld of pnjftYrn°nt nnd Inan^y nn/^ hp?iTTT^flY '" *'10... | |
 | William Howitt - 1840 - 652 pagina’s
...velvet softness, as bright as emerald, studded by clumps of shrubbery, like flowers wrought elegantly in tapestry; and across it bounded occasionally a hare,...sight with his gun in the hollow of his arm, and his hounds at his heels. And all this little world of enjoyment and luxury and beauty lay in the hand of... | |
 | John Wilson, Robert Chambers - 1840 - 364 pagina’s
...bounded occasionally a hare, and the pheasants fed near the thickets, or a lady with a flowing dress and flaunting feather, dashed into sight upon her...sight with his gun in the hollow of his arm, and his hounds at his heels — and all this little world of enjoyment and luxury and beauty lay in the hand... | |
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