 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 370 דפים
...to record his assertion, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection :" a remark no less honourable to the noble science of horticulture, than historically accordant with... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - 1826 - 312 דפים
...pleased with Bacon's remark, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ;" as if gardening were the greater perfection. A fine taste in gardening, has not till lately been much estimated. Ben Jonson coldly says, " In a... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - 1828 - 626 דפים
...to his lordship's remark, " That when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." The garden of Tarqumius Superbus, five hundred and four years before Christ, is mentioned by Livy and... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 דפים
...all the months in the year. Bacon. When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. Id. Gardeners tread down any loos.' ground, after they have sown onions or turnips. /•.'. Natural... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 דפים
...and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were...in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter; holly, ivy, bays, juniper, cypress... | |
 | 1834 - 550 דפים
...and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were...the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal onlering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in which, severally,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 דפים
...the remark of the former, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. " 32. The vale of Tempe, however, as described in the third book of /Elian's Various History, and the... | |
 | Alfred John Kempe - 1836 - 558 דפים
...chamberlains, terraces, fountains, &c. The pleasure grounds, he says should be calculated for all the months of the year, in which severally things of beauty may be then in season. " God Almighty !" observes the sage essayist, " first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest... | |
 | Alfred John Kempe - 1836 - 558 דפים
...chamberlains, terraces, fountains, &c. The pleasure grounds, he says should be calculated for all the months of the year, in which severally things of beauty may be then in season. " God Almighty !" observes the sage essayist, " first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest... | |
 | Sir Joseph Paxton - 1836 - 384 דפים
...and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegance, men eome to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. — LORD BACON. VOLUME TFIE SECOND. LONDON: ORR AND SMITH, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCXXXVI. XT LONDON :... | |
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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... 
