 | William Cullen Bryant - 1850 - 452 pagine
...inhabitants in comfort. Orange-trees, of the size and height of the peartree, often rising higher than the roofs of the houses, embowered the town in perpetual...the fragrance of the flowers was almost oppressive." FORT ST. MARK. 103 These groves have now lost their beauty. A few years since, a severe frost killed... | |
 | 1850 - 746 pagine
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 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - 1858 - 244 pagine
...inhabitants in comfort. Orange-trees of the size and height of the pear-tree, often rising higher than the roofs of the houses, embowered the town in perpetual...change of name — is a noble work, frowning over the Matanzas, which flows between St. Augustine and the island of Anastasia ; and it is worth making a... | |
 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - 1858 - 220 pagine
...inhabitants in comfort. Orange-trees of the size and height of the pear-tree, often rising higher than the roofs of the houses, embowered the town in perpetual...change of name — is a noble work, frowning over the Matanzas, which flows between St. Augustine and the island of Anastasia ; and it is worth making a... | |
 | Max Bloomfield - 1882 - 124 pagine
...inhabitants in comfort. Orange trees of the size and height of the pear tree, often rising higher than the roofs of the houses, embowered the town in perpetual...change of name — is a noble work, frowning over the Matanzas, which flows between St. Augustine and the island of Anastasia; and it is worth making a long... | |
 | Max Bloomfield - 1883 - 114 pagine
...inhabitants in comfort. Orange trees of the size and height of the pear tree, often rising higher than the roofs of the houses, embowered the town in perpetual...oppressive.' " The old fort of St. Mark, now called Fort Marion—a foolish change of name—is a noble work, frowning over the Matanzas, which flows between... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 464 pagine
...inhabitants in comfort. Orange-trees, of the size and height of the pear-tree, often rising higher than the roofs of the houses, embowered the town in perpetual...the fragrance of the flowers was almost oppressive." These groves have now lost their beauty. A few years since a severe frost killed the trees to the ground,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 440 pagine
...inhabitants in comfort. Orange-trees, of the size and height of the pear-tree, often rising higher than the roofs of the houses, embowered the town in perpetual...the fragrance of the flowers was almost oppressive." These groves have now lost their beauty. A few years since a severe frost killed the trees to the ground,... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1889 - 478 pagine
...letter from St. Augustine, April, 1843, the author of Thanatopsis wrote : " The old fort of San Marco, now called Fort Marion, a foolish change of name, is a noble work. The shell rock of which it is built is dark with time. We saw where it had been struck with cannon... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1902 - 494 pagine
...letter from St. Augustine, April, 1843, the author of Thanatopsis wrote : " The old fort cf San Marco, now called Fort Marion, a foolish change of name, is a noble work. The shell rock of which it is built is dark with time. We saw where it had been struck with cannon... | |
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But the orange-groves were the wealth and ornament of St. Augustine, and their produce maintained the inhabitants in comfort. Orange-trees of the size and height of the pear-tree, often rising higher than the roofs of the houses, embowered the town in... 
