 ... 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
 | William Cowper, Thomas Wright - 1904 - 542 pages
...honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their box - edgings, balls of holly, and yew - tree statues, are become so entirely unfashionable now,...their taste should resemble us in any thing else. Hut in every thing else, I suppose, they were our counterparts exactly ; and time, that has sewed up... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 680 pages
...and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues,' On the contrary, he wonders that a people who ' resembled us so little in their taste should resemble us in anything else.' In these limitations Cowper was essentially a man of the prosaic, matterof-fact eighteenth... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1905 - 846 pages
...and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and statues,' On the contrary, he wonders that jv people who ' resembled us so little in their taste should resemble us in anything else.' In these limitations Cowper was essentially a man of the prosaic, matterof-fact eighteenth... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1905 - 690 pages
...walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues,' On the contrary, he wonders that ft people who ' resembled us so little in their taste should resemble us in anything else.' In these limitations Cowper was essentially a man of the prosaic, matterof-fact eighteenth... | |
 | William Cowper - 1912 - 556 pages
...gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so VOL. JG entirely unfashionable now, that we can hardly believe...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... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1923 - 648 pages
...the gothic porch smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues are become so...so little in their taste should resemble us in any- so thing else. But in everything else, I suppose, they were our counterparts exactly; and time, that... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pages
...the Gothic porch smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so...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... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pages
...the Gothic porch smothered with honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their box-edgings, balls of holly, and yew-tree statues, are become so...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... | |
 | 1820 - 684 pages
...honeysuckles, their little gardens and high walls, their bos.edgings, balls of holly, and yewtree st-Mui's, are become so entirely unfashionable now, that we...possible, that a people, who resembled us so little ill Ibeir taste, should resemble us in any tiling else. But in every tliiug else, 1 suppose, they were... | |
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