Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 21
e—A vale where many a flowret gay example of an old picturesque Englishcottage. But what is a cottage ? If we search thedry and musty tomes of English law-bookswe find that, according to a statute of 4 Ed-ward I., a cottage is a house without landattached to it; but by a later enactment(31.… … BETWEEN YARMOUTH AND FRESHWATER IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT Sipt a clear streamlet on its way—A vale above whose leafy shadeThe village steeple shows its head. Such is the framework of my picture of arural home, the peculiarly beautiful and pic-turesque feature in English rural scenerywhere dwell Those…
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