Gardens Ancient and Modern: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artAlbert Forbes Sieveking J.M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 oldal |
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4. oldal
... manner of garden beds , planted trimly , that are perpetually fresh , and therein are two fountains of water , whereof one scatters his st .. is all about the garden , and the other runs over against it benea .. the threshold of the ...
... manner of garden beds , planted trimly , that are perpetually fresh , and therein are two fountains of water , whereof one scatters his st .. is all about the garden , and the other runs over against it benea .. the threshold of the ...
13. oldal
... manner was not in my citie , to dwell ( as it were ) in the country , and so to make citie and countrey all one , but all their gardens were in the villages without . Certes at Rome , a good garden and no more was thought a poor man's ...
... manner was not in my citie , to dwell ( as it were ) in the country , and so to make citie and countrey all one , but all their gardens were in the villages without . Certes at Rome , a good garden and no more was thought a poor man's ...
15. oldal
... manner . In the front of the portico is a sort of terrace , embellished with various figures and bounded with a box - hedge , from whence you descend by an easy slope , adorned with the representation of divers animals in box ...
... manner . In the front of the portico is a sort of terrace , embellished with various figures and bounded with a box - hedge , from whence you descend by an easy slope , adorned with the representation of divers animals in box ...
19. oldal
... house , the ornaments of ( A.D. 61-117 ) . which were not miracles of gems and gold , now usual in vulgar luxuries , but lawns and lakes , and after the manner of a desert ; here groves , and there open spaces and prospects ;
... house , the ornaments of ( A.D. 61-117 ) . which were not miracles of gems and gold , now usual in vulgar luxuries , but lawns and lakes , and after the manner of a desert ; here groves , and there open spaces and prospects ;
21. oldal
... manner of means let these trees be planted in a regular order , and at certain distances . Observe that quincunx , how beautiful it is ; view it on every side ; what can you observe more straight , or more graceful ? Regularity and ...
... manner of means let these trees be planted in a regular order , and at certain distances . Observe that quincunx , how beautiful it is ; view it on every side ; what can you observe more straight , or more graceful ? Regularity and ...
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Gardens Ancient and Modern: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-Art Albert Forbes Sieveking Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2018 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
agreeable alleys ancient Androuet du Cerceau appeared arbour arches architecture artificial beautiful beds Beloeil better birds borders called canal cascades Claude Mollet colour Crispin de Pass Cut-work cypresses delight earth England English Garden Epicurus Evelyn flowers fountains France French fruit fruit-trees grass green grotto ground groves hath hedges herbs hill HISTORICAL EPILOGUE History History of Gardens Horace Walpole Humphry Repton imagination Italy Jardins JOHN JOHN EVELYN kind kitchen garden labyrinth laid Landscape Gardening lawns look Lord magnificent marble meadow Nature noble OLIVIER DE SERRES orchard ornaments painted palace Paradise park parterre plantations planted pleasant pleasure poet regular river rock roses scenes shade shrubs side sort spot square statues stone stream style sweet taste Temple terrace things translated trees variety verdure Versailles villa vines walks walls whole wild WILLIAM wind wood
Népszerű szakaszok
238. 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, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
313. oldal - Insuperable height 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.
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...
3. oldal - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
207. 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.
101. oldal - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
348. 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.
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...