Roman soldiery, tiling their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious green sward; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of... Miscellaneous Essays: By Archibald Alison - Seite 71von Sir Archibald Alison - 1845 - 390 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1820 - 590 Seiten
...short-stemmed oaks, which had wimessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious...they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copeswood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking... | |
| 1820 - 774 Seiten
...short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march nf the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious...closely as totally to intercept the level beams of die sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the... | |
| 1820 - 856 Seiten
...short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed, perhaps, the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious...and copsewood, of various descriptions so closely as to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those... | |
| John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 340 Seiten
...short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps * the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung ' their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of ' the most delicious...they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and ' copsewocd of various descriptions, so closely as ' totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 852 Seiten
...short-stemmed, white-branched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most...of various descriptions, so closely as totally to in tercept the level beams of the sinking sun : in others they receded from each other, forming those... | |
| George Oliver - 1836 - 226 Seiten
...short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed, perhaps, the stately march of the Roman soldiery flung their broad gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious...they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copse wood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking... | |
| Walter Scott - 1844 - 728 Seiten
...witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet ot the most delicious green sward ; in some places they...copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally U> intercept the level beams of the sinking sun : in others they receded from each other, forming those... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1845 - 438 Seiten
...short-stemmed, wide-branched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most...descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level heams of the sinking sun ; in others they receded from each other, forming those long sweeping vistas,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1849 - 732 Seiten
...soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the niosi uVliciuiis green sward ; in some pla<es they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and...closely as totally to intercept the level beams of thesinkincr sun : in others they receded trum each other, forming those long sweeping vistas, in the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 732 Seiten
...the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet ot the most delicious green swnril ; d to ey« delights to lose itself, while imagination consider» them as the paihe to yet wilder scene? of... | |
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