 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1839 - 838 pàgines
...iron of its fastenings, and its crumbling materials, all indicate recent use and temporary habitation. It is but a short time since this mansion was tenanted...patches a young growth of such trees as are common to the country. As I approached the house I noticed that the windows were broken out, or shut up with... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1840 - 336 pàgines
...iron of its fastenings, and its crumbling materials, all indicate recent use and temporary habitation. It is but a short time since this mansion was tenanted...patches a young growth of such trees as are common to the country. As I approached the house I noticed that the windows were broken out, or shut up with... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pàgines
...disappeared for ever. Its very site will soon become a matter of doubt. The forest is fast retaining its own, and the lawns and ornamented gardens, annually...patches a young growth of such trees as are common to the country. As I approached the house I noticed that the windowsjwere broken out, or shut up with... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 688 pàgines
...disappeared for ever. Its very site will soon become a matter of doubt. The forest is fast retaining its own, and the lawns and ornamented gardens, annually...into a state of nature, and exhibiting in detached patche* a young growth of such trees as are common to the country. As I approached the house I noticed... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1843 - 338 pàgines
...iron of its fastenings, and its crumbling materials, all indicate recent use and temporary habitation. It is but a short time since this mansion was tenanted...patches a young growth of such trees as are common to the country. As I approached the house I noticed that the windows were broken out, or shut up with... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1848 - 566 pàgines
...was tenanted by its royal master, and in that brief space how great has been the devastation of B2 the elements ! A few years more, and all trace of...patches a young growth of such trees as are common to the country. As I approached the house I noticed that the windows were broken out, or shut up with... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1850 - 440 pàgines
...soon become a matter of doubt. The forest is fast reclaiming its own, and the lawns and ornamerited gardens, annually sown with seeds scattered by the...patches a young growth of such trees as are common to the country. " As I approached the house I noticed that the windows were broken out, or shut up... | |
 | William James Anderson (president of the Quebec literary and historical society.) - 1870 - 266 pàgines
...silence and desolation thit reign around ; all bespeaking a rapid and premature decay, recall to miod the untimely fate of its noble and lamented owner,...and his memory is green in the hearts of all in the New and Old Worlds who knew him, and therefore knew his worth, and no more fitting epitaph can be written... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1884 - 202 pàgines
...of its fastenings, ' and its crumbling materials, all indicate recent > use and temporay habitation. It is but a short time since this mansion was tenanted...patches a young growth of such trees as are common to the country. As I approached the house I noticed that the windows were broken out, or shut up with... | |
 | Beckles Willson - 1911 - 380 pàgines
...iron of its fastenings and its crumbling materials, all indicate recent use and temporary habitation. It is but a short time since this mansion was tenanted...patches a young growth of such trees as are common to the country." " The capital of Nova Scotia," wrote a traveller in 1856, " looks like a town of cards,... | |
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It is but a short time since this mansion was tenanted by its royal master, and in that brief space how great has been the devastation of the elements! A few years more, and all trace of it will have disappeared for ever. Its very site will soon become... 
