 GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...  English Lands, Letters and Kings - Strana 241podľa Donald Grant Mitchell - 1889Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1896 - Počet stránok 588
...in all wholesome Art, and gardening at its best is a fine art. For ever true is what Bacon says : ' Men come to build stately sooner than to ' garden...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' To borrow illustrations from other arts, the champions of the formal garden would stop short at the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - Počet stránok 376
...in gardening to be the most decisive proof of civilization ; " a man shall ever see," he remarks, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection *." It is, therefore, highly to the credit of Addition, that at a time when the style of gardening... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - Počet stránok 370
...in gardening to be the most decisive proof of civilization ; " a man shall ever see," he remarks, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection *." It is, therefore, highly to the credit of Addison, that at a time when the style of gardening was... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - Počet stránok 524
...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility...finely : as if gardening were the greater perfection. VERULAM. PREFACE. As the Four Books, which compose the following Poem, were published originally at... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - Počet stránok 520
...greatest refreshment to the ipirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility...finely : as if gardening were the greater perfection. VKRDLAM. PREFACE. As the Four Books, which compose the following Poem, were published originally at... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - Počet stránok 526
...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall erer see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy,...finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection. VIRULAM. PREFACE. As the Four Books, which compose the following Poem, were published originally at... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - Počet stránok 348
...refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy works : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - 1812 - Počet stránok 508
...argument, and almost in Aristotle's words, with respect to the superiority of gardening to architecture : " A man shall ever see, that when " ages grow to civility...; as " if gardening were the greater perfection." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted by Aristotle, appears, not only from the earlier dramatic... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - Počet stránok 310
...of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of. man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks ; and a man shall...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
 | Aristotle - 1815 - Počet stránok 492
...and almost in Aristotle's words, with respect t« the superiority of gardening to architecture : " A man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted by Aristotle appears, not only from the earlier dramatic... | |
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