 | John Adams Dix - United States - 1864 - 488 pages
...the foliage will cover it), will change the coldest prospect into one of warmth and beauty and grace. Nor is it to the taste alone that these rural embellishments address themselves ; they tend to elevate and refine the moral VOL. II. 42 feelings, and to make us better... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 554 pages
...foliage will cover it — will change the coldest prospect into one of warmth and beauty and grace. Nor is it to the taste alone that these rural embellishments address themselves ; they tend to elevate and refine the moral feelings and to make us better men. It seems... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1899 - 550 pages
...foliage will cover it — will change the coldest prospect into one of warmth and beauty and grace. Nor is it to the taste alone that these rural embellishments address themselves ; they tend to elevate and refine the moral feelings and to make us better men. It seems... | |
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... walk from the entrance-gate to the porch, running through a lawn of well-cropped grass, with here and there a lilac, an althea, or a syringa, a vine trained upon a frame — no matter how rough, for the foliage will cover it — will change the coldest... 