| Samuel Pepys - 1879 - 648 páginas
...1846, to the British Museum. Readers will remember the use which Mr. Macaulay has made of them, that " scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous tracts,...with cultivation, appear as bare as Salisbury Plain." upon his fine Spanish horse, and he is a fine horse indeed ; but not so good, I think, as I have seen... | |
| 1880 - 786 páginas
...was made over to three maids of honour to the Queen. Centuries later, that is in 1685, Enfield, now hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of twenty-five mues in circumference, in which deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered by thousands.... | |
| 1880 - 784 páginas
...over to three maids of honour to the Queen. Centuries later, that is in 1685, Enfield, now hardly cut of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of twenty -five miles in circumference, in which deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered by thousands.... | |
| Edward Payson Tenney - 1882 - 130 páginas
...heath, swamp and warren. In the drawings of English landscapes made in that age for the Grand Duke Cosmo, scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous...At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capitol, was a region of five and twenty miles in circumference which contained only three houses,... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1884 - 384 páginas
...1846, to the British Museum. Readers will remember the use which Mr. Maca11lay has made of them, that " scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous tracts,...with cultivation, appear as bare as Salisbury Plain." ing Cross, and so calling only at my cozen Turner's, away home, mightily pleased- with the day's work.... | |
| Frederick Clifford - 1885 - 548 páginas
...or fifty miles, there was not a single inclosure, and scarcely one between Biggies wade and Lincoln. At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five-andtweuty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses and scarcely any inclosed... | |
| William John Hardy - 1910 - 472 páginas
...present time, would be altogether misleading. Again, Macaulay speaks of Enfield Chase in his History: " At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the...and twenty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed fields. Deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered... | |
| William Andrews - 1899 - 292 páginas
...the brilliant sketch he gives of the condition of Mediaeval England in his history, where he says : " At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five-and-twenty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed... | |
| Grace Goodyear Kirkman - 1899 - 360 páginas
...describing the state of England in 1685, Lord Macauley writes that ' at Enfield, hardly out of sight of the capital, was a region of five and twenty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses, and scarcely any inclosed fields.' It was known as the Park or Chace of Enfield,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1901 - 732 páginas
...miles, there was not a single enclosure, and scarcely one enclosure between Biggleswade and Lincoln. and numerous tracts, now rich with cultivation, appear as bare as Salisbury Plain.1 At Enfielcl, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five and twenty... | |
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