 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 600 pages
...completely effected what it was designed to do. ' While Britain,' says Mr. D'Israeli, ' retains her aweful situation among the nations of Europe, the Sylva of...Evelyn will endure with her triumphant oaks. It was an author in his studious retreat, who, casting a prophetic eye on the age we live in, secured the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...completely effected what it was designed to do. ' While Britain,' says Mr. D'Israeli, ' retains her aweful situation among the nations of Europe, the Sylva of...Evelyn will endure with her triumphant oaks. It was an author in his studious retreat, who, casting a prophetic eye on the age we live in, secured the... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...completely effected what it was designed to do. ' While Britain,' says Mr. D'Israeli, ' retains her awful situation among the nations of Europe, the Sylva of...Evelyn will endure with her triumphant oaks. It was an author in his studious retreat, who, casting a prophetic eye on the age we live in, secured the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 344 pages
...studious life, the better part of his history has not yet been told. While Britain retains her awful situation among the nations of Europe, the " Sylva" of EVELYN will endure with her triumphant oaks. In the third edition of that work the heart of the patriot expands at its result : he tells Charles... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 354 pages
...been pleased to own it publickly for my encouragement." And surely while Britain retains her awful situation among the nations of Europe, the " Sylva"...a prophetic eye towards the age in which we live, has contributed to secure our sovereignty of the seas. The present navy of Great Britain has been constructed... | |
 | Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 450 pages
...Evelyn ought to have a place therein. " While Britain," says d'Israeli, "retains her awful situations among the nations of Europe, the Sylva of Evelyn will...endure with her triumphant oaks. * # * * * * * It was an author in his studious retreat, who casting a prophetic eye on the age we live in, secured the late... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - England - 1825 - 454 pages
...Evelyn ought to have a place therein. " While Britain," says d' Israeli, "retains her awful situations among the nations of Europe, the Sylva of Evelyn will...endure with her triumphant oaks. * * * # * * * It was an author in his studious retreat, who casting a prophetic eye on the age we live in, secured the late... | |
 | Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 pages
...woods and groves ; and as an elegant writer (Mr. D'Israeli) observes, " while Britain retains her awful situation among the nations of Europe, the Sylva of...Evelyn will endure with her triumphant oaks It was an author," he adds, " in his studious retreat, who, casting a prophetic eye on the age we live in,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli, Jsaac D'Jsraeli - English literature - 1835 - 524 pages
...Europe, the ( Sylva' of Evolyn will endure with her triumphant oaks. It was a retired philosopher whn aroused the genius of the nation, and who casting a prophetic eye towards the age in which we livo, has contributed to secure our sovereignly of the seas. The present navy of Great Britain has... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 pages
...studious life, the better part of his history has not yet been told. While Britain retains her awful situation among the nations of Europe, the " Sylva of EVELYN will endure with her triumphant oaks. In the third edition of that work the heart of the patriot expands at its result; he tells Charles... | |
| |
And surely while Britain retains her awful situation among the nations of Europe, the " Sylva" of Evelyn will endure with her triumphant oaks. It was a retired philosopher who aroused the genius of... 
