 ... upon the people of another nation, almost upon creatures of another species. Their vast rambling mansions, spacious halls, and painted casements, the gothic porch, smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens, and high walls, their box-edgings,...  The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 57edited by - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 pages
...Gothic porches smothered with honeysuckles, their linle gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yewtree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now, thai we can hardly believe il possible that a people who resembled us so liitle in their taste, should... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...— namely, to reconcile health with intemperance." When we look back upon our forefathers, we seem to look back upon the people of another nation, almost...us so little in their taste, should resemble us in anything else. But in everything else, I suppose they were our counterparts exactly, and time, that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...the gothic porch smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, + , tiling else. But in every thing else, I suppose, they were our counterparts exactly : and time, that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...jMliio porch, smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens, and high walls, their boxed^iugs, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so...us so little in their taste should resemble us in anything else. Bat in everything else I suppose they were our counterparts exactly, and time, that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...are become so entirely unfashionable Bu'.v, that we can hardly believe it possible, that a ¡wv pie who resembled us so little in their taste, should resemble us in any thing else. But in every thiaj else, I suppose, they were our counterparts eiactly; and time, that has sewed up the slashed... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...honeysuckles, their linle gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew. tree t the right hand of Christ ; and in all things ap-peared...the lewdnese. beggary, and wastefulness/' of the new lime, that has sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk-hose to a neat pair of silk... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...honeysuckles, thrir little gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, bnlls of holly, and yew. tree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now,...any thing else. But in every thing else, I suppose, ihey were our counterparts exactly ; and time, that has sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1853 - 518 pages
...the gothic porch smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their boxedgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so...were our counterparts exactly ; and time, that has sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 560 pages
...the gothic porch smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their boxedgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so...were our counterparts exactly ; and time, that has sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk hose to a neat pair of silk stockings, has... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 pages
...honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew. tree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now,...suppose, they were our counterparts exactly ; and lime, that has sewed up the slashed sleeve, and reduced the large trunk-hose to a neat pair of silk... | |
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