 | 1838 - 420 pages
...old melancholy-looking yew trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries, and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at — or...fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish-pond,... | |
 | Story-teller - 1843 - 324 pages
...they were forbidden fruit, unless now and then — and because I had more pleasure in strolling about the old melancholy-looking yew-trees, or the firs,...the fine garden smells around me, — or basking in Çhe oranger}', till Icould almost fancy myself ripening too, along with the oranges and the limes,... | |
 | Ethan Allen Andrews - 1844 - 356 pages
...and picking up the red berries, and the fir-apples, which were good for nothing but to look at—or in lying about upon the fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells around me—or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening too, along with the oranges... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...the old melancholy-looking yew trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries and the fir apples, he same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice only...distinct they say, 1 Grieve not, my child, chase all roe; or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening, too, along with the oranges... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pages
...the old melancholy-looking yew-trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at — or...fancy myself ripening too along with the oranges and limes in that grateful warmth — or in watching the dace that darted to and fro in the fish pond at... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...and picking up the red berries, and the fir-apples, which were good for nothing but to look at—or in lying about upon the fresh grass with all the fine garden smells around me—or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening too along with the orttnges... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 pages
...the old melancholy-looking yew trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at — or in lying about upon flhe fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells around me — or basking in the orangery, till I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...old n elancholy-looking yew-trees, or the fire, and picking up the red berries and the fir apples, which were good for nothing but to look at; or in lying abont upon the fresh grass, with all the fine garden smells around me ; or backing in the orangery,... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 240 pages
...now and then, — and because I had more pleasure in strolling about among the old melancholy looking yew-trees, or the firs, and picking up the red berries,...fresh grass with all the fine garden smells around me,—or basking in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening too, along with the oranges... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pages
...old n clam holy-looking yew-tre< s. or Ihe firs, and picking up the red berries and the flr apples, which were good for nothing but to look at; or in lying about upon the fresh grass, with all the lino (rardcn smells around me ; or ba.-klng in the orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening,... | |
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... nectarines and peaches hung upon the walls, without my ever offering to pluck them, because they were forbidden fruit, unless now and then; and because I had more pleasure in strolling about among the old melancholy-looking yew-trees, or the firs,... 
