| 1876 - 598 pages
...There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees ; humble villages whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers, and thickets which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too by the cheerful disposition... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...There were hills which garnished their proud heights i .th stately trees ; humble valleys, whose base ed by the Rev. A. Dyce, and printed in 1843. The most...of his productions is entitled Philip Sparrow, an f."*ers; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so too, by the cheerful... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees; humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to by the cheerful deposition of many welltuned birds; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1877 - 398 pages
...comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers ; medowes enamelled with all sorts of eie-pleas¡ng flowers; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerfull disposition of many well-tuned birds : each pasture stored with sheep feedng with sober security,... | |
| Our own country - 1878 - 714 pages
...seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; medowes enamelled with all sorts of eie-pleasing flowers; thickets, which, being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so too, by the cheerfull disposition of many well-tuned birds : each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober... | |
| Sir Archibald Michie - 1879 - 386 pages
...under more favourable circumstances you may find sketched by Sir Philip Sidney in his " Arcadia." " Meadows, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing...pleasant shade, were witnessed so too by the cheerful deposition of many well-tuned birds : each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 pages
...There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees ; humble valleys whose bare estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with... | |
| William Russell - 1882 - 332 pages
...There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, bvn-the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds: each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...'There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees; humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; ,each pasture stored with sheep, feeding... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...trees; humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadow,, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers;...lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; [each pasture stored with sheep, feeding... | |
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