 | British poets - 1822 - Počet stránok 310
...heartfelt ecstasy ! She gives to Honour, Love, and me. THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 3in Jpout ISoofes. A garden is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall i- v IT MM', that when ages grow to civility and elegancv, men come to... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - Počet stránok 844
...Almighty first planted a garden ; and that jt constitutes the purest source of human pleasures. A garden is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but of inferior value. Pomfret, in his Choice, does not forget to desire a garden to contribute to his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - Počet stránok 616
...one Bacon has left us in his well-known essay. A garden to him was ' the purest of humane pleasures, the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and pallaces are but grosse handyworks.' The ' princelike' garden of the period should not, he thought,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1823 - Počet stránok 330
...one of the most amusing and intellectual pursuits of rural life. " A garden," says my Lord Bacon, " is the purest of human pleasures : it is the greatest...which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks" ; — and whoever is sceptical on this subject will do well to read over his eloquent essay on gardens... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - Počet stránok 598
...distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XLVI. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden : and indeed it is the purest...without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handy- works: and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - Počet stránok 538
...distance, with some low galleries to pass irom them to the palace itself. XLVI. OF GARDENS. God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest...which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - Počet stránok 550
...distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XLVI. OF GARDENS. God Almighty first planted a garden ^ and, indeed, it is the purest...which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages rrow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - Počet stránok 524
...distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XLVI. OF GARDENS. God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest...which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1828 - Počet stránok 322
...THE NEW ENGLAND FABHEB. GOD ALHIGHTT first planted a Garden ; and indeed it is the purest of humam pleasures : it is the greatest refreshment to the...spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces aro but gross handy-works BACON-S ESSATS. Boston: PUBLISHED BY JB RUSSELL, No. 52 North Market Street.... | |
 | 1830 - Počet stránok 1016
...is the delight of labour. " God Almighty," says one of the wisest men that ever adorned humanity, " first planted a garden, and inde'ed it is the purest of human pleasures." It is, moreover, peculiarly favoured in this, that while it is the pleasantest of all descriptions of labour,... | |
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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 handyworks... 
