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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,... "
The Young Man's Offering: Comprising Prose and Poetical Writings of the Most ... - Page 128
1853 - 316 pages
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 5-6

Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 pages
...old u flam-holy-looking yew-trees, or The flrs, and picking up the red berries and the fir upplcp, which were good for nothing but to look at; or in lying about upon the fn*h grass, with all the fine garden hint-lit* iironnd me ; or backing in the orangery, till I con...
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Standard Supplementary Readers

William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 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...
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Essays [of Elia].

Charles Lamb - 1883 - 40 pages
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1885 - 428 pages
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal ..., Volume 7

Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1888 - 438 pages
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1890 - 472 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...
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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...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,...smells around me — or basking in the orangery, till l could almost fancy myself ripening too, along with the oranges and the limes, in that grateful warmth...
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English Essays

J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 324 pages
...and how the nectarines and peaches hung upon the walls, without my ever offering to pluck them — and because I had more pleasure in strolling about...good for nothing but to look at — or in lying about on the fresh grass with all the fine garden smells around me — or basking in the orangery, till I...
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English Essays

J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 362 pages
...and how the nectarines and peaches hung upon the walls, without my ever offering to pluck them — and because I had more pleasure in strolling about...good for nothing but to look at — or in lying about on the fresh grass with all the fine garden smells around me — or basking in the orangery, till I...
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Selections from the Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 pages
...sometimes in the spacious old-fashioned gardens, which I had almost to myself, unless when now and then 25 a solitary gardening man would cross me, — and how...orangery, till I could almost fancy myself ripening 5 too along with the oranges and the limes in that grateful warmth, — or in watching the dace that...
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