 All round and through the midst of it were broad straight walks flanked with vines, which seemed to promise a plenteous vintage; and being all in blossom, they gave so delicious a scent, joined with other flowers then blowing in the garden, that they...  The Decameron - Page 73by Giovanni Boccaccio - 1898Full view - About this book
 | 1907 - 584 pages
...designs. Broad straight walks, flanked with vines, closed in with red and white roses and jasmine, in such a manner as to exclude the morning and even the midday sun, spaces set round with orange and bay trees. ' In the centre, a fountain of white marble beautifully... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio - 1822 - 262 pages
...and being all in blossom, they gave so delicious a scent, joined with other flowers then blowing iu the garden, that they thought themselves amongst the...and red roses and jessamine, in such a manner, as to exclnde the morning, and even the mid-day sun. What FJ variety of plants, and bow elegantly disposed,... | |
 | Gift books - 1829 - 414 pages
...the richest wines and delicate springs of water every where running; its garden walks, whose sides were closed with white and red roses and jessamine...as to exclude the morning, and even the midday sun; its grass plot of deep green, spangled with a thousand different flowers, and set round with orange... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio - English fiction - 1855 - 626 pages
...walks flanked with vines, which seemed to promise a plenteous vintage; and being all in blossom, they gave so delicious a scent, joined with other flowers...exclude the morning and even the mid-day sun. What was the variety of plants, and how elegantly disposed, it would be needless to mention, since there... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio - 1903 - 598 pages
...walks flanked with vines, which seemed to promise a plenteous vintage ; and being all in blossom, they gave so delicious a scent, joined with other flowers...exclude the morning and even the mid-day sun. What was the variety of plants, and how elegantly disposed, it would be needless to mention, since there... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1907 - 794 pages
...walls flanked with vines, which seemed to promise a plenteous vintage ; and, being all in blossom, they gave so delicious a scent, joined with other flowers...as to exclude the morning and even the midday sun. . . . In the middle of this garden, what seemed more delightful than anything else was a plot of ground... | |
 | 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 - 1907 - 646 pages
...walls flanked with vines, which seemed to promise a plenteous vintage ; and, being all in blossom, they gave so delicious a scent, joined with other flowers...as to exclude the morning and even the midday sun. . . . In the middle of this garden, what seemed more delightful than anything else was a plot of ground... | |
 | 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 - 1907 - 630 pages
...walls flanked with vines, which seemed to promise a plenteous vintage; and, being all in blossom, they gave so delicious a scent, joined with other flowers...as to exclude the morning and even the midday sun. . . . In the middle of this garden, what seemed more delightful than anything else was a plot of ground... | |
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