 | 1900 - 514 psl.
...garden at Sayes Court, there was, to use Evelyn's own language, " a glorious and refreshing object, an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five feet in diameter, at any time of the year glittering with its armed and variegated leaves; the taller... | |
 | 1900 - 496 psl.
...garden at Sayes Court, there was, to use Evelyn's own language, " a glorious and refreshing object, an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five feet in diameter, at any time of the year glittering with its armed and variegated leaves ; the taller... | |
 | Jean Allan Owen, George Simonds Boulger - 1902 - 508 psl.
...through it ? " Is there under the heavens," he asks, "any more glorious and refreshing object than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can still show at any time of the year in my ruined garden at Sayes Court (thanks to the Czar... | |
 | George Simonds Boulger - 1907 - 286 psl.
...Is there under the heavens," he asks in his " Sylva," " any more glorious and refreshing object than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can still show at any time of the year in my ruined garden at Sayss Court (thanks to the Czar... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1908 - 446 psl.
...he asks, ' ' Is there, under the heavens, a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can still show in my ruined garden at Saye's Court (thanks * In England the word " nasty "... | |
 | Alice Birkhead - 1915 - 220 psl.
...through it with a barrow. It had been " a glorious and refreshing object " in its perfect state, being four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter. " Thanks to A t Sayes Court the Tsar " the garden was in ruins ; pictures had been destroyed, and hangings... | |
 | Louise Beebe Wilder - 1923 - 396 psl.
...out of doors. I always enjoy Evelyn's prideful description of his famous Holly hedge at Says Court, "four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter . . . glittering with its armed and varnished leaves, and blushing with its natural coral— shorn... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 psl.
...garden at Sayes Court, there was, to use Evelyn's own language, " a glorious and refreshing object, an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five feet in diameter, at any time of the year glittering with its armed and variegated leaves; the taller... | |
 | 1845 - 746 psl.
...garden at Sayes Court, there was, to use Evelyn's own language, " a glorious and refreshing object, an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five feet in diameter, at any time of the year glittering with its armed and variegated leaves ; the taller... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 522 psl.
...garden at Sayes Court, there was, to use Evelyn's own language, " a glorious and refreshing object, an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five feet in diameter, at any time of the year glittering with its armed and variegated leaves ; the taller... | |
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Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge, of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can... 
