 | George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 330 str.
...this spot is the most favourable view of the house and its surrounding scenery : the whole appearing like a vast grove interspersed 'with columns, obelisks,...emerge from a luxuriant mass of foliage. The gardens, which occupy 400 acres, exhibit a tine specimen of what may be effected by art, with scarcely any assistance... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - 1801 - 1208 str.
...mansion, estate, and titles. The present owner was created Marquis of Buckingham in the year 178*. Stowe, when beheld at a distance, appears like a vast...alterations effected by Lord Cobham, under whose direction I he groves were planted, the lawns laid out, many of the buildings erected, and the corridors and... | |
 | Edinburgh gazetteer - 1822 - 846 str.
...forms the chief ornament of the county. This noble demesne is situated 2 miles NW of Buckingham, ond, when beheld at a distance, appears like a vast grove...apparently emerge from a luxuriant mass of foliage. I n approaching the house, the first architectural object that attracts attention is a Corinthian arch... | |
 | 1847 - 620 str.
...statues, monuments, and a variety of other buildings, which, to describe fully , would take a volume. STOWE, when beheld at a distance, appears like a vast...apparently emerge from a luxuriant mass of foliage. At a short distance from the Corinthian Arch, is one of the entrances to the Gardens, near which are... | |
 | Madeline Agar - 1911 - 316 str.
...writing in 1826, some seventy years after its laying out says : " When beheld at a distance, this place appears like a vast grove, interspersed with columns,...apparently emerge from a luxuriant mass of foliage," and it is " the chief ornament of the county." Stow was thought to be Kent's finest work. He and his... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1912 - 342 str.
...Walpole, rendering the spot, in the words of another chronicler, 'when beheld from a distance . . . like a vast grove, interspersed with columns, obelisks,...apparently emerge from a luxuriant mass of foliage.' In promoting these developments it is probable that Bridgeman and Brown were largely advised and aided... | |
 | 1829 - 334 str.
...statues, monuments, and a variety of other buildings, which, to describe fully, would take a volume. STOWE, when beheld at a distance, appears like a vast...towers, which apparently emerge from a luxuriant mass of foliare. At a short distance from the Corinthian Arch, is one of the entrances to the Gardens, near... | |
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Stowe, when beheld at a distance, appears like a vast grove, interspersed with columns, obelisks, and towers, which apparently emerge from a luxuriant mass of foliage. 