| Arthur Christopher Benson - 1896 - 336 страници
...friends. I venture to quote the exquisite description of Burnham Beeches, which cannot betoo well-known. " I have, at the distance of half a mile through a green...•common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices, mountains, it is true,... | |
| Arthur Christopher Benson - 1896 - 340 страници
...exquisite description of Burnham Beeches, which cannot betoo well-known. " I have, at the distaifce of half a mile through a green lane, a forest (the...common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices, mountains, it is true,... | |
| Albert J. Foster - 1897 - 232 страници
...reading when I should hunt. My comfort amidst all this is, that I have, at the distance of half-a-mile, through a green lane, a forest (the vulgar call it...common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human being in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains, it is true,... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 страници
...for her own." There is a significant passage in one of his early letters to Horace Walpole (1737): "I have, at the distance of half a mile, through a...common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices. . . Both vale and hill... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1898 - 346 страници
...uoiUUu£. hoary. l-'r.iser MS.. with spreading and nodding super'I have at the distance of half-a-mile, through a green lane, a forest (the vulgar call it...common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices; mountains, it is true,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1899 - 268 страници
...for walking when I should ride, and reading when I should hunt. My comfort amidst all this is, that I have at the distance of half a mile, through a green...common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices; mountains, it is true,... | |
| J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1899 - 610 страници
...famous among all English-speaking people. " I have," he wrote in a vacation letter to Horace Walpole, "at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane,...common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices—mountains, it is true,... | |
| John Cann Bailey - 1899 - 324 страници
...readingwhen I should hunt. Mycomfort amidst all this is, that I have at the distance of half-a-mile, through a green lane, a forest (the vulgar call it...common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices; mountains, it is true,... | |
| 1900 - 674 страници
...for walking when I should ride, and reading when I should hunt. My comfort amidst all this is, that I have at the distance of half a mile, through a green...all my own, at least, as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices, mountains, it is true,... | |
| R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 страници
...Walpole we get a pleasant picture of the youth studying at the feet of the famous Burnham Beeches. I have, at the distance of half a mile through a green...common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself. It is a little chaos of mountains and precipices ; mountains, it is true,... | |
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