 | Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pagina’s
...greatly celebrated. Close to 'the gates a spacious garden lies, From stones defended and inclement skies. Four acres was th' allotted space of ground, Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around ; Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould ; The redd'ning apple ripens here to gold ; Here... | |
 | Homerus - 1828 - 246 pagina’s
...industrious arts. Close to the gates a spacious garden lies, From storms defended and inclement skies. Four acres was th' allotted space of ground, Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around; Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould; The red'ning apple ripens here to gold. Here the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pagina’s
...divested of harmonious Greek and bewitching poetry, it was a small orchard and vineyard, with fome beds of herbs and two fountains that watered them,...quickset hedge. The whole compass of this pompous garden contained four acres. The trees were apples, figs, pomegranates, pears, olives, and vines. Alcinous's... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pagina’s
...bewitching poetry, it was a small orchard and vineyard, with some beds of herbs and two fountains »hat watered them, enclosed within a quickset hedge. The whole compass of this pompous garden contained four acres. The trees •were apples, figs, pomegranates, pears, olives, and Tines. Alcinous's... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1838 - 706 pagina’s
...Alcinous and his happy land ?" Why, divested of harmonious Greek and bewitching poetry, it was a small orchard and vineyard, with some beds of herbs, and...that watered them, enclosed within a quickset hedge ! " Of course the whole scene is a mere romantic creation of the poet, but in describing it, he would... | |
 | 1838 - 472 pagina’s
...Alcinous and his happy land ?' Why, divested of harmonious Greek and bewitching poetry, it was a small orchard and vineyard, with some beds of herbs, and two fountains that watered them, inclosed within a quick-set hedge !" Of course, the whole scene is a mere romantic creation of the... | |
 | Henry Stephens - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...near their country dwellings. Homer specifies the smallness of the enclosures which were fenced : •' Four acres was th" allotted space of ground, Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around." ', The Romans followed precisely the same practice in fencing as the Greeks, for fences around their enclosures... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 pagina’s
...upon that point, influenced only by a love of truth, and of hia own country? — D. it was a small orchard and vineyard, with some beds of herbs, and...acres. " Four acres was th' allotted space of ground, Fenced with a green enclosure all around." Odyst. book vii. v. 145. The trees were apples, figs, pomegranates,... | |
 | 1849 - 466 pagina’s
...POPE. Odys*. book vii. v. 176. Why, divested of harmonious Greek and bewitching poetry, it was a small orchard and vineyard, with some beds of herbs, and...quickset hedge. The whole compass of this pompous garden enclosed—four acres. " Four acres was th' allotted space of ground, Fenced with a green enclosure... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pagina’s
...harmonious Greek and bewitching poetry," observes Horace Walpole, " the garden of Alcinous was a small orchard and vineyard with some beds of herbs and two fountains that watered them, inclosed within a quickset hedge." Lord Kames, says, still more boldly, that it was nothing but a kitchen... | |
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The red'ning apple ripens here to gold. Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year. 
