 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...stand at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XL VI. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden : and indeed it...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 - 1820 - 548 pages
...stand at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XLVII. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed,...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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 614 pages
...described in language of so much beauty, that we shall trespass on our page with a few brief specimens. ' God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed,...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy works: and aman shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. . . XLVII. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed,...to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and pulaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy,... | |
 | 1821 - 656 pages
...in splenetic vacancy. Having mentioned the name of Bacon, let us not omit to record his assertion, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection :" a remark no less honourable to the noble science of horticulture, than historically accordant with... | |
 | 1821 - 662 pages
...in splenetic vacancy. Having mentioned the name of Bacon, let us not omit to record his assertion, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection :" a remark no less honourable to the noble science of horticulture, than historically accordant with... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 682 pages
...but gross handy-works." The same profound and elegant writer observes, that " a man shall ever sec that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; aa if gardening were the greater perfection." To this perfection, we trust, we arc rapidly arriving... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 pages
...garden seems to have been the supreme delight of our old authors. " God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, " first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works." Perhaps in the shady walks of his garden, Bacon felt his mind purified from its grosser... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 406 pages
...Poet's good taste in gardening was unquestionable. " For the honour of this art," Lord Bacon says, " a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." forms; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which when a lamp (of an orbicular figure... | |
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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... 
