 Many thousands of square miles, which are now rich corn land and meadow, intersected by green hedge-rows, and dotted with villages and pleasant country seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see straggling...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 103edited by - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 200 pages
...exceptions, everything would be strange to us. 15 Many thousands of square miles which are now rich corjx land and meadow, intersected by green hedgerows, and...furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should see 20 straggling huts built of wood and covered with thatch, where we now see manufacturing towns and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 598 pages
...witnessed the wars of the Roses. But, with such rare exceptions, everything would be strange to us. Many thousands of square miles which are now rich corn land and meadow, f\ n intersected by green hedgerows, and dotted with villages and pleasant X \V 1 country seats, would... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 730 pages
...appearance high in the air. WASH. IRV., The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, (360). Many thousands of square miles would appear as moors overgrown with furze , or fens abandoned to wild ducks. MAC. , Hist., I , Ch. Ill , 277. ** The farmers provided him with a horse. Their wives sent him baskets... | |
 | William Henry Ricketts Curtler - 1920 - 352 pages
...recognize his own fields . . . many thousands of square miles which are now rich corn land and meadows, intersected by green hedgerows and dotted with villages...overgrown with furze or fens abandoned to wild ducks.' Three-fifths of the country was still in open fields ; at ' Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke... | |
 | William Henry Ricketts Curtler - 1920 - 356 pages
...hundred, or one building in ten thousand. The country gentleman would not recognize his own fields . . . many thousands of square miles which are now rich corn land and meadows, intersected by green hedgerows and dotted with villages and pleasant country seats would appear... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1905 - 184 pages
...witnessed the Wars of the Roses. But, with such rare ij exceptions, everything would be strange to us. Many thousands of square miles which are now rich...green hedgerows, and dotted with villages and pleasant country-seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks. We should... | |
 | 1862 - 802 pages
...thousands of square miles which are now rich com land and meadow, intersected by green hedge TOWS, and dotted with villages and pleasant country seats,...would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abai duned to wild ducks; we should »eo straggling hnts built of wood and covered with thatch, where... | |
 | 160 pages
...witnessed the wars of the Roses. But, with such rare exceptions, everything would be strange to us. Many thousands of square miles which are now rich corn land and meadows, intersected by green hedgerows, and dotted with villages and pleasant country seats, would... | |
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