The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artJ. M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 oldal |
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15. oldal
... letters . Both have been the subject of learned disquisition and restoration by Scamozzi , Félibien , Schinkel and R. Castell in ' Villas of the Ancients . ' 2 Sir William Temple supposes the ' Acanthus ' of the ancients to be what we ...
... letters . Both have been the subject of learned disquisition and restoration by Scamozzi , Félibien , Schinkel and R. Castell in ' Villas of the Ancients . ' 2 Sir William Temple supposes the ' Acanthus ' of the ancients to be what we ...
16. oldal
... letters expressing the name of the master ; sometimes that of the artificer ; whilst here and there little obelisks rise , intermixed 1 Xystus , terrace ( properly a large portico for athletic exercises ) . 2 Matius is said to have ...
... letters expressing the name of the master ; sometimes that of the artificer ; whilst here and there little obelisks rise , intermixed 1 Xystus , terrace ( properly a large portico for athletic exercises ) . 2 Matius is said to have ...
18. oldal
... Letter to Apollinaris , translated by William Melmoth . ww PLUTARCH TISSAPHERNES , in all other cases savage in his temper , and the bitterest enemy that Greece experienced among the Persians , gave himself up , notwithstanding , to the ...
... Letter to Apollinaris , translated by William Melmoth . ww PLUTARCH TISSAPHERNES , in all other cases savage in his temper , and the bitterest enemy that Greece experienced among the Persians , gave himself up , notwithstanding , to the ...
32. oldal
... Letter from Vaucluse , 1336.- Life of Petrarch , ' by Thomas Campbell . www F thou desire to know the situation of Clairvaux , let those writings be to thee as a mirror . . . . Then the back part of the Abbey terminates in a broad plain ...
... Letter from Vaucluse , 1336.- Life of Petrarch , ' by Thomas Campbell . www F thou desire to know the situation of Clairvaux , let those writings be to thee as a mirror . . . . Then the back part of the Abbey terminates in a broad plain ...
48. oldal
... letters adorning the said frieze , and along it shall be written , Dieu n'a prins plaisir en rien , sinon en l'homme , auquel habite Sapience ( God has taken no pleasure in aught , save in Man , in whom dwelleth Wisdom ) : and thus my ...
... letters adorning the said frieze , and along it shall be written , Dieu n'a prins plaisir en rien , sinon en l'homme , auquel habite Sapience ( God has taken no pleasure in aught , save in Man , in whom dwelleth Wisdom ) : and thus my ...
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230. oldal - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
3. oldal - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices : A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
67. oldal - 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...
305. oldal - Of a steep wilderness whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild. Access denied; and overhead up - grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
340. oldal - ... college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
306. oldal - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose : Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant...
199. oldal - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
69. oldal - ... or desert, in the going forth, and the main garden in the midst, besides alleys on both sides ; and, I like well, that four acres of ground be assigned to the green, six to the heath, four and four to either side, and twelve to the main garden.
305. oldal - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
100. oldal - I NEVER had any other desire so strong and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniencies joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study of nature...