 | Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...accommodating in composition. It refuses no subject either in natural or in artificial landscape. It is suited to the grandest, and may, with propriety, be introduced...their ivied walls, it gives them a kind of majesty coeval with itself: at the same time its propriety is still preserved, if it throw its arms over the... | |
 | 1816 - 572 pages
...accommodating in composition. It refuses nn subject either in natural or in artificial landscape. It is suited to the grandest, and may, with propriety, be introduced...wild moss-grown branches athwart their ivied walls, k gives them a kind of majesty coeval with itself: at the same time its propriety is still preserved,... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...in composition. It refuses no subject, either in natural, or in artificial landscape. It is suited to the grandest, and may with propriety be introduced...adds new dignity to the ruined tower, and Gothic arch ; it throws its arms with propriety over the mantling pool, and may be happily introduced even in the... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 436 pages
...accommodating in composition. It refuses no subject either in natural or in artificial landscape. It is suited to the grandest, and may with propriety be introduced...their ivied walls, it gives them a kind of majesty coeval with itself; at the same time, its propriety is still preserved, if it throw its arms over the... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 796 pages
...accommodating in composition. It refuses no subject either in natural or in artificial landscape. It is suited to the grandest, and may with propriety be introduced...their ivied walls, it gives them a kind of majesty coeval with itself; at the same time, its propriety is still preserved, if it throw its arms over the... | |
 | M. H. Cowell - Plants - 1839 - 140 pages
...accommodating in composition. It refuses no subject either in natural or in artificial landscape. It is suited to the grandest and may, with propriety, be introduced...pastoral. It adds new dignity to the ruined tower and the gothic arch ; by stretching its wild mossgrown branches athwart their ivied walls, it gives them... | |
 | Matthew Henry Cowell - 1839 - 136 pages
...accomodatiug in composition. It refuses no subject either in natural or in artificial landscape. It is suited to the grandest and may, with propriety, be introduced...pastoral. It adds new dignity to the ruined tower and the gothic areh ; by stretehing its wild moss-grown limbs athwart their ivied walls, itgivesthem a... | |
 | Prideaux John Selby - Forests and forestry - 1842 - 572 pages
...accommodating in composition. It refuses no subject, either in natural or artificial laudscape ; it is suited to the grandest, and may with propriety be introduced...pastoral. It adds new dignity to the ruined tower and the gothic arch ; by stretching its wild moss-grown branches athwart their ivied walls, it gives them... | |
 | Prideaux John Selby (naturaliste).) - Forests and forestry - 1842 - 1004 pages
...with propriety be introduced into the most pastoral. It adds new dignity to the ruined tower and the gothic arch ; by stretching its wild moss-grown branches...their ivied walls, it gives them a kind of majesty coeval with itself; at the same time, its propriety is still preserved if it throws its arms over the... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1844 - 546 pages
...accommodating in composition. It refuses no subject, either in natural or in artificial landscape. It is suited to the grandest and may with propriety be introduced...pastoral. It adds new dignity to the ruined tower, and the Gothic arch ; and by stretching its wild, moss-grown branches athwart their ivied walls, it gives... | |
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I have dwelt the longer on the oak, as it is confessedly both the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most accommodating in composition. It refuses no subject either in natural or in artificial landscape. It is suited to the grandest, and may with... 
