 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1837 - 214 pages
...of its environs. On every side the most charming retreats open to them, nor is there a metropolis ia the world surrounded by so many rural villages, picturesque...the rattling hell ; and find himself in a sublime silvan solitude superior to the cedars of Lebanon, and inferior only in extent to the chestnut forests... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1859 - 436 pages
...pleasantly than in sight of Kensington Gardens, viewing the silver Thames winding by the-bowers ofRosebank, or inhaling from its terraces the refined air of graceful...recriminating boudoir, the conspiring club, the rattling hellj and find himself in a sublime sylvan solitude superior to the cedars of Lebanon, and inferior... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1859 - 442 pages
...pleasantly than insight of Kensington Gardens, vie wing the silver Thames winding by the bowers ofKosebank, or inhaling from its terraces the refined air of graceful...the throbs of ambition , the wear and tear of play , tho recriminating boudoir, the conspiring club , the rattling hell; and fiud himself in a sublime... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1881 - 620 pages
...Rosebank, or inhaling from its terraces the refined air of graceful Richmond. In exactly ten minntes it is in the power of every man to free himself from all the tnmnlt of the world ; the pangs of love, the throbs of ambition, the wear and tear of play, the recriminating... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1901 - 420 pages
...like a Rood mile of the forest of St. Germain in the heart of town.'— John Bull and his Island. ' In exactly ten minutes it is in the power of every...to free himself from all the tumult of the world. ... It is Kensington Gardens that is almost the • only place that has realised his idea of the forests... | |
 | Emily Constance Baird Cook - London (England) - 1903 - 542 pages
...earth." Disraeli, also, wrote of it as follows in his most " classically-flowery" manner :— them .... In exactly ten minutes it is in the power of every...of play, the recriminating boudoir, the conspiring cluh, the rattling hell, and find himself in a sublime sylvan solitude Tea in Kensington Gardens. superior... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - England - 1907 - 412 pages
...that the inhabitants of London are scarcely sufficiently sensible of the beauty of its environs. . . . With the exception of Constantinople, there is no...man to free himself from all the tumult of the world and find himself in a sublime sylvan solitude superior to the Cedars of Lebanon and inferior only in... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - England - 1907 - 412 pages
...that the inhabitants of London are scarcely sufficiently sensible of the beauty of its environs. . . . With the exception of Constantinople, there is no...man to free himself from all the tumult of the world and find himself in a sublime sylvan solitude superior to the Cedars of Lebanon and inferior only in... | |
 | Emily Constance Baird Cook - London (England) - 1907 - 506 pages
...also, wrote of it as follows in his most "classically-flowery" manner : — RUS IN URBE CHAP. them .... In exactly ten minutes it is in the power of every...hell, and find himself in a sublime sylvan solitude Tea i,i Kensington Gardots, superior to the cedars of Lebanon, and inferior only in extent to the chestnut... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - Country life - 1908 - 304 pages
...the inhabitants of London are scarcely sufficiently sensible of the beauty of its environs. With 183 the exception of Constantinople there is no city in...to free himself from all the tumult of the world, and find himself in a sublime sylvan solitude, superior to the cedars of Lebanon, and inferior only... | |
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For himself, though in his time something of a rambler, he is not ashamed in this respect to confess to a legitimate Cockney taste; and for his part he does not know where life can flow on more pleasantly than in sight of Kensington Gardens, viewing the... 
