 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1905 - 184 pages
...orchards, hayfields, and beanfields then ran through nothing but heath, swamp, and warren.* In 5 the drawings of English landscapes made in that age for...rich with cultivation, appear as bare as Salisbury Plain.44 At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five and twenty... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1906 - 736 pages
...1846, to the British Museum. Readers will remember the use which Mr. Macaulay has made of them, that "scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous tracts,...with cultivation, appear as bare as Salisbury Plain." matters to their liking about the assignments on the Customes, between the Navy Office and Victualler,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1908 - 746 pages
...orchards, hayfields, and beanfields, then ran through nothing but heath, swamp, and warren. In the drawings of English landscapes made in that age for...appear as bare as Salisbury Plain. At Enfield, hardly put of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five and twenty miles in circumference, which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 192 pages
...King's Natural and Political Conclusions. Davenant on the Balance of Trade. swamp, and warren.1 In the drawings of English landscapes made in that age for...tracts, now rich with cultivation, appear as bare as 5 Salisbury Plain.2 At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 194 pages
...is to be seen, and numerous tracts, now rich with cultivation, appear as bare as 5 Salisbury Plain.2 At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the...which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed fields. Deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered there by 10 thousands.8 It is to... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1909 - 456 pages
...State of England in 1685, not, perhaps, without that exaggeration pertaining to the orotund style, " At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the...which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed fields. Deer as free as in an American forest, wandered there by thousands." The historian... | |
 | William Henry Ricketts Curtler - 1909 - 404 pages
...bean-fields then ran through nothing but heath, swamp, and warren. In the drawings of an English landscape made in that age for the Grand Duke Cosmo scarce a hedgerow is to be seen At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of fiveand-twenty miles in... | |
 | Arthur Hayden, Hugh Phillips - 1912 - 364 pages
...SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STYLES 79 wherein he quotes authority by authority, holds a mirror to seventeenth-century life. At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five-and-twenty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 pages
...orchards, hayfields, and beanfields, then ran through nothing but heath, swamp, and warren. t In the drawings of English landscapes made in that age for...tracts, now rich with cultivation, appear as bare as * King's Natural and Political Conclusions. Davenant on the Balance of Trade. t See the Itinerarium... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1915 - 832 pages
...orchards, hayfields, and beanfields, then ran through nothing but heath, swamp, and warren. t In the drawings of English landscapes made in that age for...tracts, now rich with cultivation, appear as bare as * King's Natural and Political Conclusions. Davenant on the Balance of Trade. t See the Itinerarium... | |
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At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five and twenty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed fields. Deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered there by thousands. 
