Why Woolson eventually muffled herself in phrases like "hemisphere of pie" or "embowered street" isn't quite clear.
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U.S. Census of 1860. One observer described the city in 1861, "With a population of thirty thousand the city contains many pleasant residences, embowered in shade trees, and surrounded by generous grounds. It is rendered attractive by its tall pines, live oak, and Pride-of-China trees."Bergeron, p. 3.
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A feast is held on the first > Sunday after St Luke's day. John Throsby, writing during 1790 in his new edition of Robert Thoroton's Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, describes the Church of St John the Baptist as follows: > The Church, which is beautifully embowered with trees, has 3 bells (see > plate page 13, fig. 1.) a nave and two side aisles, neatly pewed.
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The erratic and almost forgotten novelist George Lippard frequently wrote about the Wissahickon, and was even married at sunset on or around May 14, 1847, on a rocky crag called Mom Rinker's Rock, overlooking the stream. One of his books, The Rose of Wissahikon; or, The Fourth of July, 1776. A Romance, Embracing the Secret History of the Declaration of Independence (1847) may refer not only to the Wissahickon, but to his wife, the former Rose Newman. He wrote: > A poem of everlasting beauty and a dream of magnificance – the world-hidden, > wood embowered Wissahickon.
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There is a Rector and Associate Priest. White's Directory of Nottinghamshire, written in 1853, describes the Church of St John the Baptist as follows: > The church is a neat edifice embowered in thick foliage, with a handsome > tower and four bells,, and dedicated to St Luke, and contains several rural > monuments of the Lewis's and others. The chancel window is principally > composed of stained glass. The rectory is valued in the King's books at £9 > 7s 8d, now £435. The worthy owner gives £5 a year to the poor of this > parish, and also supports an infant school.
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From his home in "tree-embowered" South Belfast ("faubourg Malone"), Ireland lived to witness the onset of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Listening to intermittent rifle-fire from the Falls Road in Republican West Belfast he wrote: > the shots did not begin in Belfast; they reached Belfast from the background > of Irish history, all the way back to the battle of Kinsale. . . . Light had > been thrown on that subject in a conversation in a Dublin cafe when a friend > --a one-time Gaelic speaker from Connemara--told me what his grandmother > said to him about Irish politics, presumably in Irish. 'In Ireland the > extreme party is always right.
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John Throsby, writing during 1790 in his new edition of Robert Thoroton's Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, describes Stanford as follows: > Which is over the river Soar, and parts Leicestershire from Nottinghamshire, > is pleasing: The banks of the river, on the Nottingham side, are adorned > with trees, set too regular, if on a plain, to strike the eye of taste; but > the line of the eminence being irregular, diversifies the studied formality > of the planter, and creates beauty, towards which the stream below, > contributes not a little. > The Church, which is beautifully embowered with trees, has 3 bells (see > plate page 13, fig. 1.) a nave and two side aisles, neatly pewed. The > Chancel is large.
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In all, he oversaw the development of Port of Spain into an attractive town; in the words of Henry Coleridge in 1825: ::"Port of Spain is by far the finest town I saw in the West Indies. The streets are wide, long, and laid out at right angles; no house is now allowed to be built of wood, and no erection of any sort can be made except in a prescribed line. There is a public walk embowered in trees (...), and a spacious market place with a market house or shambles in excellent order and cleanliness." Supervising many of the works personally, protected from the sun and on his horse; he became popularly known among the creole as "gouverneur chapeau paille" (Governor straw hat).
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The Higher Hill (1944). By Grace MacLennan & Grant Campbell In 1820, the English geologist, John Jeremiah Bigsby, was invited to a dinner at St. Antoine, which he described at great length in his entertaining book, The Shoe and Canoe: I had the pleasure of dining with the then great Amphictyon of Montreal at his seat, on a high terrace under the mountain, looking southwards and laid out in pleasure-grounds in the English style. The view from the drawing room windows of this large and beautiful mansion is extremely fine, too rich and fair, I foolishly thought, to be out of my native England. Close beneath you are scattered elegant country retreats embowered in plantations, succeeded by a crowd of orchards of delicious apples, spreading far to the right and left, and hedging in the glittering churches, hotels, and house-roofs of Montreal, Quebec... Mr McGillivray was accustomed to entertain the successive governors in their progresses, and was well entitled to such honour, not only from his princely fortune, but from his popularity, honesty of purpose, and intimate acquaintance with the true interests of the colony... My host was then a widower with two well-educated daughters.
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