| 单词 | pleasure ground |
| 例句 | Here, among the restaurants and the merchandise, is the story of how our industrial past became the pleasure grounds of super-modernity. What were the highs and lows of your Olympic Park experience? 2012-08-08T15:16:58Z Once the pleasure ground of wealthy Maecenas, it captivated the likes of Augustus, Horace and Virgil. Rome’s seven hills offer seven green respites from summer’s crowds 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z These pleasure grounds were greatly missed when they, too, were destroyed to create a grander, more imposing greensward from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol. Is architect Bjarke Ingels’s bold remake of the Smithsonian Castle grounds mere folly? In 1890, Congress indeed contemplated that this pleasure ground would be laid out and prepared for “roadways … to be used for driving.” Opinion | Leave Rock Creek Park’s upper Beach Drive closed to cars 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z They wanted to provide the common citizen with an opportunity to experience the “country within the city,” “pleasure grounds” that offered beauty, tranquillity, informality and opportunities to reflect and recharge. Protect the legacy of our urban parks, a classic public good 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z London in particular has presented itself very effectively since the 90s as a civilised, slightly retro pleasure ground for the global rich, and How to Spend It has helped burnish that myth. How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1% 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Her reconstruction was not quite as opulent, but it was a sumptuous personal pleasure ground, intended to signify the strength of the family and its immense retinue of courtiers. Was This Powerful Chinese Empress a Feminist Trailblazer? 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Yellowstone, Adams believed, was being sold to the public as a pleasure ground, whereas to him it was more like a church. Yellowstone as a magical land and backdrop for artists and architects 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Considering this, it would be especially inequitable for the vehicles of out-of-state residents to bisect this great pleasure ground with their desire for fast and convenient transportation to destinations beyond the park. Opinion | Leave Rock Creek Park’s upper Beach Drive closed to cars 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z As industrialized cities grew in density, some leaders set aside land, often at the edge of town, as pleasure grounds intended as a public-health benefit. Rise of the Superpark 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z But the vistas and easy access afforded by the bridge transformed the still-rural stretch of the river into a pleasure ground in the late 1800s. The High Bridge, a Path Linking Manhattan and the Bronx, Reopens After 40 Years 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Surrounding this beautiful rural retreat were gardens and pleasure grounds, which were designed and laid out with great artistic taste and skill in the arrangement of walks, shrubs, rose-trees, flowers, and evergreens. The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales 2012-04-27T02:00:33.040Z Lord Castlemaine has a charming rustic cottage on Hare Island, and the pleasure grounds attached to it are laid out with very great taste and skill. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z The scene is laid in a pleasure ground surrounded by landscape, swathed in the balmy atmosphere of an autumnal evening. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z It was used afterwards by the disunion forces as a hospital for the camp at Roxbury and his pleasure grounds were converted into a place of burial for the soldiers who died there. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z Followed by Fido, the fearless child of nature quickly descended the stairs, and plunged into the artificial intricacies of the pleasure grounds beneath. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The next step was taken when it became fashionable to have conservatories attached to mansions, instead of having them in the pleasure grounds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The most circumspect of chaperons, the most drastic of duennas cannot ensure her charges against sometimes making ineligible acquaintance on these public pleasure grounds. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The main entrance to the square, which is laid off as a pleasure ground, and well kept, is from Canal street. Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z "Sir Ferdinand, when he resided at Armine, was accustomed to fill these pleasure grounds with macaws and other birds of gorgeous plumage." Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Crocuses have also a pleasing effect when dotted about on the lawns and grassy banks of the pleasure ground. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Alongside the river extended a spacious pleasure ground for the recreation of the brethren, who were not permitted to go into the town without the leave of the Master. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z Long after the gardens and the general maintenance of the public parks endowed them with fresh attractions, the private pleasure grounds of corporate owners were closed. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z We had not then learned, from that vivacious people, who have neither taste nor talent for being sad, to convert our graveyards into pleasure grounds. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The garden, the wealth of vineyard and of royal pleasure ground, is used as a background to comely and gracious figures. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z She had very nice ways, and was never known to go near the pig-pen, that being, in her opinion, not exactly a pleasure ground. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z No plan, it seems to me, is so good as keeping to the natural form of the earth in all lawn, pleasure ground, and plantation work. Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z Before the obelisk was established on the Thames Embankment the municipal authorities had prepared a home for it and converted into daintily kept pleasure grounds the little enclosures by the side of the riverain promenade. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z On the other side of the Castle were gardens and pleasure grounds, opening on to a long stretch of heather-covered moorland, which, at last, met a distant range of hills. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z Preferring partially shaded spots, they are particularly valuable for planting in woodland walks, and beneath our native trees in parks and pleasure grounds. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z Fortunately, Congress early reserved the greater part of this domain as a public pleasure ground. Fly Fishing in Wonderland 2011-09-01T02:00:22.230Z The immediate environs of the city are occupied by private residences, many of which are very elaborate and imposing, surrounded by charming gardens and pleasure grounds. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z This is the old defence of exclusive enjoyment of parks and pleasure grounds, as the people, if admitted to them, would destroy them—which they do not. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Mon dieu! did not unfriendly eyes peer from every lurking place around the royal palaces and pleasure grounds near Paris; and had they not encountered them all the way to the sea? The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Sailing on the Broad is freely permitted, but yachts are not allowed to moor there at night, on account, it is said, of the unavoidable refuse floating against the private pleasure grounds of the owners. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z The pheasant preserves of Vernon Park lay contiguous to the house, between the pleasure grounds and the “home farm.” The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z She has her independent studio in the rear of a building in a little court adorned with a pleasure ground, in the Avenue Frochot. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z Just as the individual farmer needs some land for fields, some for pasture, and some for woodlots, so the nation needs some for cities, some for farms, some for pleasure grounds, and some for forests. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z By the outlay of some money and the exercise of some discrimination, a portion of this same cedar swamp was rapidly converted into pleasure ground, with labyrinths of full-grown shrubbery ready-prepared by nature's hand. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z This part of the town is laid out with pleasure grounds and esplanades. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z On the north, Central Park, with its fine avenues, its hillocks, its valleys, its lakes, and its magnificent terrace over the Hudson, is a very lovely pleasure ground. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z Now nothing but a marble structure, surrounded by extensive highly ornamented pleasure grounds, at an expense of millions, will answer for the legislators of this anti-republican era. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Notable instances of the growing appreciation of these uses of the forest are the reservation of the Yellowstone and Yosemite Parks as pleasure grounds. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z Great chafing-dishes threw a red light over the ponds, jutting fountains and the pleasure grounds of the baths, whilst rockets ascended and lighted up at intervals the dark background, the mountains of the Jura. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. Including the local parks of the cities and towns of the metropolitan district there are over 17,000 acres of pleasure grounds within the metropolitan park district. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The chief buildings and institutions are a handsome town hall, a museum, free libraries, technical schools, and several public pleasure grounds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Palace and mosque and garden and serai, Bazaars and baths and spacious pleasure grounds, By favor of Allah to perfection sprang. Later Poems They would include the use of the forest as pleasure grounds, for hunting, fishing, camping, photography, and general sightseeing. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z We have a fence of the Copper Beech, dividing the kitchen garden from the pleasure grounds, 138 yards long, 18 feet high, and from 4 feet to 5 feet through. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The site of part of the pleasure grounds immediately adjoining the river, is left wild, and covered with woods; and the remainder is converted into a farm in the highest state of cultivation. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. On the west side of the street runs a double street-car track, and beyond this is an immense common parade or pleasure ground, the Maidan, which extends to the Hoogley, a branch of the Ganges. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant Americans who visit Europe cannot fail to remark that in the parks and pleasure grounds of the Continent no coniferous tree is more graceful when young or more dignified at maturity than our White Pine. Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 It happened on a fine summer evening, when the sun had already sunk, and twilight had already begun, that, according to my custom, I was walking alone in a pleasure ground near Potsdam. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors We skirted the domain and entered the pleasure grounds of the Manoir Cheverny, and soon were reposing ourselves in the ancient and comfortable old house. Francezka Modern Willenhall, although without public parks or pleasure grounds, and not yet possessing public baths, is fairly well equipped for its size and rateable value. The Annals of Willenhall Beyond the Great Wall, on the borders of Tartary, exists another palatial enclosure, the hunting and pleasure grounds of the emperor, in the midst of an immense forest abundantly stocked with game. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The site selected for the village was quite near to the railroad, and large enough to give abundant space for future factories, shops, lawns and ornamental pleasure grounds. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century Mrs. Stanton's cosy flat was on the other side, and through this lovely pleasure ground each bright day Miss Anthony took her morning walk. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years On the slope lay the park and pleasure grounds of the château. Francezka The gardens are like all other French pleasure grounds, formal and comfortless, but there is one part you would all enjoy. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) And there are beautiful parks and pleasure ground and places of recreation of all kinds. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife She resented being brought there to admire the pleasure grounds and mansion, and to kow-tow to the grandeur of these mediæval tyrants. Amaryllis at the Fair After leaving the commanding general’s tent, Saint-Prosper retired to rest in that wilderness which had once been a monarch’s pleasure grounds. The Strollers So largely has the Seven-hilled City become the pleasure ground of foreign residents. Italy, the Magic Land A picturesque chapel was accordingly built on a rising knoll, separated from the pleasure grounds and the castle by a river, over which a handsome bridge made no mean addition to the lordly scene. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI There is no beauty of distribution, no feature of amenity, no reach of fancy which embellishes our pleasure grounds in England, that is not to be found here. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton As I had last seen it all the great pleasure ground seemed fast asleep. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands In the pleasure grounds, and especially on either side of one broad avenue, there are to be sculptured figures of kings and heroes, larger than life and as white as snow. Home Life in Germany But there was a grand fête in the pleasure grounds close to the town, accompanied by a magnificent display of fireworks. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Out of a total area of nearly 6000 acres no fewer than 694 acres have been laid out as parks and pleasure grounds. Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch The castle enceinte is now laid out as a pleasure ground, with all a public garden's advantages and disadvantages. Highways and Byways in Surrey This capital is unsurpassed by any of the British colonies in the elegancies and luxuries of modern civilization, such as broad avenues, palatial dwellings, churches, colossal warehouses, banks, theatres, public buildings, and pleasure grounds. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Here, beyond the roses and honeysuckles, the eye found first the wild garden or pleasure ground. The End of a Coil Ah, if only his path were as clear and straight as those he was now treading—and yet the stiff formality of the vast pleasure grounds seemed hideous and hateful to him. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France We are by no means all millionaires, and our idea is not to make this colony a pleasure ground for the remittance-man. Lorimer of the Northwest There are a good many buildings, shops, pleasure grounds, a handsome military parade and exquisite beaches. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" In Mogul days such a garden was maintained as a pleasure ground during the owner's lifetime, and used for his interment when dead. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan For this was not a primeval forest; it was not forest at all; it was a lordly pleasure ground. The End of a Coil Every visitor to Manila in the old days exhausted his vocabulary in praise of the Luneta, the old Spanish city's pleasure ground, which overlooked the bay and Corregidor Island. The Critic in the Orient Or I may go to Boston's wide pleasure ground, the Franklin Park, by an electric car made possible by the discoveries of Franklin. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin "Paradise" was originally a park or pleasure ground, applied also to the Garden of Eden, and later to horticultural gardens. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 Along the desolate shores of the Forth Clyde villas and pleasure grounds would spring up; and Edinburgh would vie with London and Paris. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Paradise, as Aunt-Judy's readers may know, is originally an Eastern word, meaning a park, or pleasure ground. Last Words A Final Collection of Stories To you life is only a pleasure ground, and the more your own personal satisfaction is obtainable, the more you cling to its spurious enjoyments. The Mystery of a Turkish Bath The Province had come greatly to the fore as a summer pleasure ground and less thoughtful travelers did not always obtain such quarters as they preferred. Dorothy's Travels Sometimes the road was bordered on each side by high walls, which formed the enclosures of gardens or pleasure grounds. Rollo in Geneva Evidently for better safety and for an easier defence, the women and children had been taken to a central park or pleasure ground, and left there with a small guard of soldiers. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner When we got below the ships and ship yards we came to a part of the river where there were parks and pleasure grounds on the banks, and beautiful houses back among the trees. Rollo in Scotland We have got nightingales in the pleasure ground, and in the wood down near the sea. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 Across the way, at Magdalen College, exists a pleasure ground which cannot rightly be included among Oxford's gardens, though it is certainly one of her best-known natural adornments. Oxford His son, the Lord Dunseveric of 1798, having little left him to do in the way of building, devoted his early years to planting and laying out pleasure grounds round the new house. The Northern Iron Beyond the castle walls and the inclosure of the pleasure grounds the peace of twilight rested on the land; the great fields lay becalmed; the distant forests were bivouacs of rest. Under the Rose These pleasure grounds extended some way up the slope of the Castle Hill. Rollo in Scotland Land will not be wanting, for it is round the great towns, and round Paris especially, that the parks and pleasure grounds of the landed gentry are to be found. The Conquest of Bread This island, formerly, belonged to the Dutch98 governor, who had made it a pleasure ground or garden, built good houses upon it, and sowed and planted it. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 There was a country place with a handsome house and pleasure grounds, belonging to the royal family. Rollo in Holland After you pass through the square, the Grand Alley still continues on, though now it becomes a Grand Avenue, leading through pleasure grounds, with ranges of trees and of buildings on either side. Rollo in Paris A little beyond the town, however, on the margin of the lake, was a delightful region of gardens and pleasure grounds, with four or five very handsome hotels among them. Rollo in Switzerland She walked in the pleasure grounds with Miss Johnson, or called at Mrs. Cox's, with whom the Madam was now on the best of terms. The Expressman and the Detective The next morning gave to Matilda, more objects of admiration and wonder, as she walked over the extensive gardens, groves, and other pleasure grounds belonging to the house. A Simple Story The pleasure grounds attached to the chateau, very exactly correspond with its style: the chateau is usually built in the worst possible site of the whole estate. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 The deodar is of very slow growth; and this unfits it for being introduced into European countries—except as an ornamental timber for parks and pleasure grounds. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" The promenade of Crassipes has been washed away, pleasure grounds, a great number of shops. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Mrs. Maroney was taking her accustomed stroll through the pleasure grounds, accompanied by De Forest and Flora. The Expressman and the Detective A. This was the business; I was going to turn the front part of my house into an inn, and to make the back part of my house into pleasure grounds. The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 The country is uneven and diversified, and the fields have the air of pleasure grounds, except in the luxuriant wildness of the hedges, and the frequent intermixture of orchard and fruit trees. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Vashti met his eyes for a moment, then turned her own to the window and the blue waterways beyond the terrace, beyond the massed tree-tops of the pleasure grounds. Major Vigoureux Now it so happened that this spot was the pleasure ground of a company of fairies, who had a colony near by. Ting-a-ling After mailing the letter, they strolled through the pleasure grounds for some time. The Expressman and the Detective Landscape-gardening is the art of so arranging flower-beds, grass, shrubbery, and trees as to produce pleasing effects in the grounds surrounding our homes and in great public parks and pleasure grounds. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Cowper describes Hayley's estate as one of the most delightful pleasure grounds in the world. Highways and Byways in Sussex The banks should be planted with forest trees and made as attractive as they can be made to form public parks and pleasure grounds for the people, where boating, fishing and bathing may be enjoyed. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Your royal gardeners are going to make asparagus beds all over our fairy pleasure grounds. Ting-a-ling In the pleasure grounds is a "baronial hall," one hundred feet long, fifty broad, and thirty high; and besides this an enormous tent, called "the Encampment for all Nations." Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Near the farm, in corresponding pleasure grounds, the miller's house particularly impressed us with delight. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. To the west lay a beautiful park and pleasure ground, while far away to the northward stretched the deep, dense forest, tall, dark and sombre. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems A variety of flags were placed around the pleasure ground, which gave a very striking effect to the scene.” The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway They are extensively kept in the parks, and pleasure grounds of the wealthy people, where things of profit are usually connected with those devoted to luxury. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings As he approached the pleasure grounds, he turned off into a side path that he might not be perceived; he caught, through a vista, a distant glimpse of the mansion. Henrietta Temple A Love Story In the vicinity of One-hundred-and-eighteenth street, the line of the avenue is broken by Mount Morris, an abrupt rocky height, which has been laid off as a pleasure ground. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The House of Providence was built on the highest point of Chaillot, in a healthful, beautiful spot, and was surrounded by a large, shady garden which served as pleasure grounds to its inmates. A Cardinal Sin But you will find, upon a second or third visit, that the unnatural arrangement of the French pleasure grounds has something of staleness about it. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 The shape, either a parallelogram or a square; for it will be recollected, that this is a place allotted, not for a show or pleasure ground, but for profit. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings Of what special value are the parks and pleasure grounds in a city to the health of its inhabitants? Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools By the opening of the present century, Broadway had extended above the present City Hall Park, which had been enclosed as a pleasure ground in 1785. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City I had seen a wonderful advertisement of a spacious dwelling-house, with offices, gardens, pleasure grounds—to be had for fifty pounds per annum. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Still the object evidently was to allure men into the paths of wisdom through the pleasure grounds of imagination. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Some days they built a fort, other days a castle or a pleasure ground. Marjorie at Seacote The plan also embraces a palatial hotel on the summit and pleasure grounds upon the point at its base. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention Often gangs of Roughs will enter the pleasure grounds in the upper part of the city, in which a pic-nic or social gathering is going on, for the sole purpose of breaking up the meeting. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City A large pleasure ground around the house, half garden, half shrubbery, was open to promenaders; and at certain points there were lights and seats and music and refreshments; the last two not necessarily together. Wych Hazel When the tide is out a wide stretch of sands is exposed, and crowds of children use it as a pleasure ground, finding beautiful seaweed and shells. Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight Since then, several hundreds have been carted from his small park and pleasure grounds, and should the secret be betrayed to the family I am cheerfully confident that not one of them would believe it. Art The beautiful park at the landing presents the most beautiful frontage of any pleasure ground along the river. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention Italy and Greece are Europe's pleasure grounds; there the cultivated and the prosperous traveller may satisfy his soul and forget carking cares and stabbing ambitions, and drug himself with loveliness. Dangerous Ages And presently most of those staying in the house turn their steps towards the pleasure grounds. The Hoyden The pleasure grounds were ornamented with some of the rarest exotics. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One It must have been hard when, after being familiar with the gardens and parks of England and Holland, they found themselves restricted to front yards by way of pleasure grounds. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches Every live boy in Pleasantville was in evidence about the village pleasure grounds, the common and the hill. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent Not far from Frank's guardian's house, in Leicestershire, there was a small white-walled villa, surrounded by pretty pleasure grounds, and inhabited by the most enchanting family in the world. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 The pleasure grounds, in their artistic embellishments, are perhaps unsurpassed by any others in the world. The Empire of Russia A few yellow sand hills with clusters of pine trees and some scrubby undergrowth; a more desolate, arid, gloomy pleasure ground cannot be conceived. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls Indeed there can be little doubt of its thriving, as the tree has been long grown in gardens and pleasure grounds in those settlements, as an ornamental plant, and has always flourished. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. No visible roads lead to it; no fertile and cultivated land surrounds it; no trees or parks or pleasure grounds are near it. With Rimington A poor man's pleasure grounds must rely on Nature, and trust to her for effects. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Then obeying an impulse, May rose to her feet, and leaving the tennis players she walked across the pleasure grounds. Muslin The cordon of the white and blue guards of the Household still swept about the vast pleasure grounds of this fairy temple; yet the officers left their posts and conversed one with the other. The Mississippi Bubble The place that the crowd had occupied had that peculiarly dreary aspect characteristic of a deserted pleasure ground. The Frontiersmen His house servants were obliged occasionally to work on the estate, and part of the pleasure grounds were ploughed up and devoted to husbandry. Tales of a Traveller Notwithstanding, and though Spain was, after 1605, fairly safe for Englishmen, as a pleasure ground it was not popular. English Travellers of the Renaissance The pictures of Guy’s Cliff have been extravagantly praised, but the natural and artificial beauties of its gardens and pleasure grounds constitute its chief attraction. Rides on Railways As a transcendant pleasure ground and recreation wilderness for ninety millions of people, it is worth ninety millions of dollars, and not a penny less. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Little by little these pasture lands were transformed into mere pleasure grounds attached to villas. Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic Frank scarcely recognized the tiny pleasure ground, so covered was it with tents and bedding. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts There are several fine libraries, theatres, hospitals, and charitable institutions, and the city is especially well off in the matter of public parks and pleasure grounds. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge A Gainsborough or a Morland would seek his subjects in remote villages and a Watteau or a Stothard in the well kept pleasure ground. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Up and down their empire, in various places, the Persian kings had these paradises—parks or pleasure grounds—surrounded and shut off from the neighbouring country by a high fence or wall. The King's Cup-Bearer Within these borders lay the pleasure grounds and gardens and the cattle-sheds for the herds, which the great landowner or chief loaned out to the smaller men in return for services rendered. The Glories of Ireland There was talk among the real estate visionaries of making it a pleasure ground. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts A home was now purchased in Surrey, with eight or nine acres of pleasure grounds, for George Eliot had always longed for trees and flowers about her house. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous Bengal is enriched with a boundless variety of noble trees admirably suited to parks and pleasure grounds. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden We are not told where this particular paradise was, of which Asaph was the keeper, but probably it was the place which the kings of Judah had always made their pleasure ground. The King's Cup-Bearer I had intended, wherever I might fix my residence, to construct water-wheels, to produce an artificial stream, and to lay out an elegant and regularly planned pleasure ground. A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood Up and down these hills frequently runs a stripe of Scotch firs or larches a few rods wide; here and there they resemble those geometrical figures often seen in gardens and pleasure grounds. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's This one man has no right to these parks and woods and pleasure grounds and vast walls; these square miles of ploughed fields, meadows and hills. Hodge and His Masters It is true that Milton's Paradise had "no nice art" in it, but then it was not a little suburban pleasure ground but a world. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Then she finds herself in the pleasure grounds of Thornby Place. A Mere Accident An Englishman had lately taken up his abode in the tower, which, with the adjacent pleasure ground, he rented at forty pounds a-year. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 The ancient pleasure grounds exhibit a great variety of pleasing objects, and also numerous curiosities; among others, a mill that was in being before the Norman conquest, it being mentioned in doomsday book. A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington Such persons no longer live in towns of this kind—they build villas with lawns and pleasure grounds outside in the environs, or, though still retaining their pecuniary interest, reside at a distance. Hodge and His Masters Why should he not keep his mind for his own enjoyment and for the enjoyment of his friends, treating it like his pleasure grounds or park? The Lake But to the average popular apprehension a herd of cattle so pointedly suggests thrift and usefulness that their presence in the public pleasure ground would be intolerably cheap. Theory of the Leisure Class They went down the stairs together and passed through the drawing-room into the pleasure grounds. The Shuttle One's idea of an English park - even such a park as Windsor's - dwindled into that of a pleasure ground, when compared with the boundless territory we drove through. Tracks of a Rolling Stone So it was settled that with the quiet little hotel as headquarters the four would spend a week in exploring Cincinnati as a pleasure ground. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise These are far less interesting and characteristic, however, than the mansions set in the midst of spacious pleasure grounds and the lovely home cottages embowered in honeysuckle and climbing roses. Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon A similar difference is perceptible in other respects, as well as in the accepted ideals of pleasure grounds. Theory of the Leisure Class Let thy bookcases and shelves be thy gardens and pleasure grounds. The Book of Delight and Other Papers There were peacocks in the pleasure grounds at Holkham, and I had an aesthetic love for their gorgeous plumes. Tracks of a Rolling Stone The place had more the air of forming part of pleasure grounds near to the haunts of man, and the eye wandered instinctively in search of a house. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story Most of the poplars are suitable for pleasure grounds, and as nurses for slower growing and more emphatic trees. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) A wall parted this off from the private apartments and the pleasure grounds occupying the western section of the Palace enclosure. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places The city possesses a superb system of parks and pleasure grounds, designed and laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, the architect of Central Park in New York City. By Water to the Columbian Exposition Our way through the valleys of Libanus, was like one long wandering among the pleasure grounds of opulent citizens. Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra The barrenness of this district was greater than I had yet witnessed in my travels, excepting perhaps some parts of the desert El Tyh; the Nubian valleys might be called pleasure grounds in comparison. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land The effect of this magnificent pleasure ground has been most salutary. The Secrets of the Great City The pleasure grounds and every thing at Bow-wood bespoke the residence of one who was a nobleman by nature as well as by title. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 Somewhere at the back, in some pleasure ground or casino or place of entertainment, an undaunted brass band was playing against the cosmic uproar. Tremendous Trifles What a magnificent pleasure ground, vast, various, and seductive! America To-day, Observations and Reflections Such arrangements of scenery had not been uncommon in my day, when great cities prepared costly pleasure grounds, but I had never imagined anything on a scale like this. Equality The Cascino consists of pleasure grounds on the banks of the Arno outside the town, laid out in roads, alleys and walks for carriages, equestrians and pedestrians. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 She had, she said, orders to dress us a dinner, which she should do, while we were walking round the gardens and pleasure grounds, and viewing the cascade. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 The Apostles and several others persons had keys of this garden, which was used sometimes as a pleasure ground, and sometimes as a place of retirement for prayer. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ The house was built, and the pleasure grounds laid out by himself. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives Its half-acre of pleasure ground—attended to by a jobbing gardener once a week—was trim and flowery. Hyacinth These palaces—did not the king keep them for the people? did he not bear all the expense of caring for them, that they might furnish public pleasure grounds and exhibition rooms? Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 The land on both sides of the river is like a garden, and is devoted to pleasure grounds in the usual proportion. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland First he defends pleasure grounds, gardens, shrubberies and deer parks. Lectures and Essays It led onward between the Devil's churches and the pleasure grounds. Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory The level strip of ground which stretches through and beyond the town is laid out in handsome pleasure grounds, shaded by noble trees and adorned at intervals with lofty and sparkling fountain-jets. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 03 The lawn, with its very modern appointments, became as some garden of the Golden House, a pleasure ground of an emperor. Tales of Chinatown As we neared the castle the woods became broken into a lawn and pleasure ground, and at a sudden turn we found ourselves before the castle. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland The first that in your pleasure grounds appears; I'd have you, on his wings, to use the shears. Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete After leaving the Hill of Remorse and the pleasure grounds of Apathy, Mr. World and Miss Church-Member proceeded on the Broad Highway which now gradually sloped toward a deep valley. Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory Recreation had its limits and that day was counted lost into which a race over the pleasure grounds had not been crowded. Jane Allen, Junior Some of them have fine foliage, and bear handsome flowers and agreeably tasted fruit, and would form most ornamental additions to our southern gardens and pleasure grounds. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland English royal parks and pleasure grounds are quite different. Winter Sunshine In Italy I saw the most intense culture in the world—no pleasure grounds or deer parks for the wealthy. An Autobiography Soon, all along the now desolate shores of the Forth and Clyde, villas and pleasure grounds would be as thick as along the edges of the Dutch canals. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 The fire was spreading so fast that Lord Martindale decided on removing all the helpless to the gardener's house at the end of the pleasure ground. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife The park and pleasure grounds, with flushed summer beauty, lay smiling around them. Dora Thorne But the Frenchman loves forests evidently, and nearly all his pleasure grounds about Paris are immense woods. Winter Sunshine Sallust's House, says there is a right of way through our new pleasure ground. An Unsocial Socialist The land to a great extent round his pleasure grounds was in his own hands; and the labourers who cultivated it formed part of his family. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 You have a very different opinion of our boasted civilization now from that which you held when I broke your wall down and invited those Land Nationalization zealots to march across your pleasure ground. An Unsocial Socialist In the parks and pleasure grounds, nature, dressed yet not disguised by art, wears her most alluring form. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 |
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