 ... of his heart, if such a thing could be done, as of pulling up the currant bushes that are so well rooted in the garden. How the red beet-tops glisten in their long rows, as if some pains-taking hand had varnished them, one by one ! How crowded stand...  Homespun: Or, Five and Twenty Years Ago - Pagina 42door George Canning Hill - 1867 - 346 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
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...the little half-acre Elysium, where grew so luxuriantly my bulbous cabbages and bright-eyed beans. 1 am conscious that Goethe did not miss of the general...way, as well as a moonlight resort for lovers ; a contprted grape-vine weaving a lattice of leaves below and a canopy of green overhead, whose purple... | |
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...had varnished them, one by one ! How crowded stand those carrots, boring each its long yellow finger into the mellowed sub-soil ! With what a Dutch-like...performance of the useful work they are set to do 1 At the further end of the plat stands the summer house, — i sort of Pomona's shrine, in its way,... | |
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