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" Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence of English park scenery. Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees, heaping up rich piles of foliage: the solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades,... "
My Daughter's Book: Containing a Selection of Approved Readings in ... - Page 362
1834 - 482 pages
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, Volume 1

Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...to have caught her coy and furtive graces, and spread them, like witchery, about their rural abodes. Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence...heaping up rich piles of foliage. The solemn pomp of i4 groves and woodland glades, with the deer trooping in silent herds across them; the hare, bounding...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...to have caught her coy and furtive graces, and spread them, like witchery, aboul their rural abodes. Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence...The solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades, with r the deer trooping in silent herds across them; the hare, bounding away to the covert; or the pheasant,...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 84

English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...have caught her coy and furtive graces, and spread them, like witchery, about their rural abodes. " Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence...of English park scenery. • Vast lawns that extend Uke sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees, heaping up rich piles of foliage....
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Magazine of Botany and Gardening British and Foreign ..., Volumes 1-2

1833 - 494 pages
...to have caught her coy and furtive graces, and spread them, like witchery, about their rural abodes, Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence...with here and there clumps of gigantic trees, heaping \ip rich piles of foliage. The solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades, with the deer trooping in...
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The Beauties of Washington Irving

Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...danger of being food for the fishes — it was the spot where his father and mother had heen buried. RURAL, LIFE IN ENGLAND. NOTHING can be more imposing...or the pheasant, suddenly bursting upon the wing. Th« brook, taught to wind in natural meanderings, or expand into a glassy lake — the sequestered...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.], Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1836 - 250 pages
...to have caught her coy and furtive graces, and spread them, like witchery, about their rural abodes. Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence...up rich piles of foliage. The solemn pomp of groves ahd woodland glades, with the deer trooping in silent herds across them ; the hare, bounding away to...
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The Duke: A Novel

Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1839 - 286 pages
...Irving1 s description of English park scenery. He says, 'there is nothing more imposing than its beauty. Vast lawns, that extend like sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees D 5 heaping up rich piles of foliage. The solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades, with the deer...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 326 pages
...to have caught her coy and furtive graces, and spread them, like witchery, about their rural abodes. Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence...trees, heaping up rich piles of foliage. The solemn pornp of groves and woodland glades, with the deer trooping in silent herds across them ; the bare,...
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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to ...

Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1844 - 548 pages
...to have caught her coy and furtive graces, and spread them like witchery about their rural abodes. Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence...trees heaping up rich piles of foliage. The solemn group of groves and woodland glades, "with the deer trooping in silent herds across them ; the hare...
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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to ...

Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1844 - 546 pages
...to have caught her coy and furtive graces, and spread them like witchery about their rural abodes. Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence...sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gfgantic trees heaping up rich piles of foliage. The solemn group of groves and woodland glades, with...
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