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" Its soil is a gravel, which, assisted with its declivity, preserves it always so dry that immediately after the most violent rain a fine lady may walk without wetting her silken shoes. The fertility of the place is apparent from its extraordinary verdure,... "
Jenkinson's Practical Guide to the Isle of Wight - Página 2
por Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1883 - 233 páginas
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The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

Henry Fielding - 1755 - 260 páginas
...fhaded with large and flourifhing elms, that its harrow lanes are a natural grove or walk, which in tke regularity of its plantation. vies with the power of art, and in its wanexuberancy greatly exceeds it.. • IN a field, in the afcent of this hill, about a quarter of a...
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Miscellaneous: Covent-Garden journal. Essay on nothing. Charge delivered to ...

Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 páginas
...affords that charming prospect^I have above described. Its soil is a gravel, which, assisted with its declivity, preserves it always so dry that immediately...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it. Io a field in the ascent of this hill, about a quarter of a mile from...
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A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of ..., Volumen11

William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 400 páginas
...affords that charming pro<pect I have above described. Its soil is a gravel, which, assisted with its declivity, preserves it always so dry, that immediately...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it. In a field, in the ascent of this hill, about a quartn of a mile from...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, Volumen6

1816
...situated amid a lawn and flower garden ; but from want of elevation precluded from the inland views row lanes are a natural grove or walk, which in the regularity...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it." I am the more induced to give these extracts, as this work has experienced...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, Volumen6

1816 - 598 páginas
...situated amid a lawn and flower-garden ; but from want of elevation precluded from the inland views row lanes are a natural grove or walk, which in the regularity of its plantation vies with the power of ait, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it." I am the more ir.duccd to give these extracts,...
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The Isle of Wight visitor's book

Wight Isle of - 1839 - 172 páginas
...the place is apparent from its extraordinary verdure ; and it is so shaded with large and nourishing elms, that its narrow lanes are a natural grove or...and, in its wanton exuberance, greatly exceeds it." it to Henry Player, Esq. in whose family it still remains ; the proprietor of every house being subject...
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The Land We Live in: Scotland, Ireland and the Devonshire coast

1856 - 586 páginas
...Fielding greatly admired the verdant appearance of Ryde : — " The fertility of the place," he says, " is apparent from its extraordinary verdure, and it...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it." All this is changed. The narrow lanes have become wide roads, and the...
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Black's Guide to the South-eastern Counties of England: Hampshire and the ...

1861 - 336 páginas
...Route 1. RYDE—PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 829 grove or walk, which. in the regularity of its plantation rises with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberance greatly exceeds it." The PUBLIC BUILDINGS of the town are few and unimportant. The most pretentious is the TOWN HALL and...
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Nelsons' Hand-book to the Isle of Wight ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1862 - 282 páginas
...the place is apparent from its extraordinary verdure, and it is so shaded with large and nourishing elms that its narrow lanes are a natural grove or...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it."— Fielding. ..1845 1. The Pier, built ................ 1814 !!. Steam...
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Nelsons' Hand-book to the Isle of Wight: Its History, Topography, and ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1864 - 284 páginas
...affords that charming prospect I have above described. Its soil is a gravel, which, associated with its declivity, preserves it always so dry, that immediately...plantation vies with the power of art, and in its wanton exuberancy greatly exceeds it."— Fielding. The progress of the town since the days of Fielding may...
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