 After dinner, I walked to Ham, to see the house and garden of the Duke of Lauderdale, which is indeed inferior to few of the best villas in Italy itself ; the house furnished like a great Prince's ; the parterres, flower-gardens, orangeries, groves, avenues,...  The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of ... - Page 374by Roger North - 1826Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Felton - Gardens - 1829 - 88 pages
...garden for walks, trees, and a little green-house." That at Ham House, Middlesex, where (says Evelyn) " the parterres, flower gardens, orangeries, groves,...this at the banks of the sweetest river in the world, must needs be admirable. ' ' The gardens at Beddington, the celebrated seat of the Carews. Those "... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1829 - 476 pages
...room, set Ovcr a cellar." Of Ham House in Middlesex, the seat of the Duke of Lauderdale, he observes, " the parterres, flower gardens, orangeries, groves,...statues, perspectives, fountains, aviaries, and all this on the bank of the sweetest river in the world, must needs be admirable." He also describes many other... | |
 | George William Johnson - Gardening - 1829 - 466 pages
...room, set over a cellar." Of Ham House in Middlesex, the seat of the Duke of Lauderdale, he observes, " the parterres, flower gardens, orangeries, groves,...statues, perspectives, fountains, aviaries, and all this on the bank of the sweetest river in the world, must needs be admirable." He also describes many other... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Arboriculture - 1835 - 1326 pages
...villas of Italy itself, the house furnished like a great prince's ; the parterre's, flower-gardens orangeries, groves, avenues, courts, statues, perspectives,...this at the banks of the sweetest river in the world, must needs be admirable." 219 1 1 27. Wanstead House, Essex ( fig. 219.), "I went to sec Sir Josiah... | |
 | 1838 - 734 pages
...friend of that sweet poet Cowley), the parterres, flower-gardens, orangeries, groves, avenues, coverts, statues, perspectives, fountains, aviaries — and all this at the banks of the noblest river in the world, must needs be admirable."! Here we must desist, leaving with regret the... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 414 pages
...villas in Italy itself ; the house furnished like a great Prince's ; the parterres, flower-gardens, orangeries, groves, avenues, courts, statues, perspectives,...this at the banks of the sweetest river in the world, must needs be admirable. Hence, I went to my worthy friend, Sir Henry Capel, [at Kew] brother to the... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1862 - 450 pages
...parterres, flower-gardens, orangeries, groves, avenues, courts, statues, perspectives, fountain!), aviaries, and all this at the banks of the sweetest river in the world, must needs be admirable. Hence, I went to my worthy friend, Sir Henry Capel, [at Kew] brother to the... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1870 - 788 pages
...parterres, flower gardens, orangeries, groves, avenues, courts, statues, perspectives, fountaines, aviaries, and all this at the banks of the sweetest river in the world, must needes be admirable. Hence I went to my worthy friend Sir Henry Capel [at Kew] brother to the... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - English language - 1876 - 340 pages
...Wottoniance. 218 PERSPICUOUS — PERT. The parterres, flower gardens, orangeries, perspectives, fountains, and all this at the banks of the sweetest river in the world. — JOHN EVELYN, Ham House. China. I had no repugnance then — why should I now have — to those... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1878 - 450 pages
...villas in Italy itself ; the house furnished like a great Prince's ; the parterres, flower-gardens, orangeries, groves, avenues, courts, statues, perspectives,...this at the banks of the sweetest river in the world, must needs be admirable. Hence, I went to my worthy friend, Sir Henry Capel, [at Kew] brother to the... | |
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