 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...Man fliall ever fee, that when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancy, Men come to Build Stately, fooner than to Garden finely : As if Gardening were the greater...Gardens, for all the Months in the Year : In which, feverally, Things of Beauty may be then in Seafon. For December, and January, and the Latter Part of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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, cypresstrees,... | |
 | Frederick William Shelton - 1853 - 376 pages
...countrymen after some time be passed over." " There ought," says he, " to be gardens for every month in the year, in which severally things of beauty may be then in season. For November, December, January and February, you must take such things as be green all winter, holly,... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1853 - 744 pages
...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 have repeatedly witnessed with delight the crowds of happy people who enjoy the beauties of Hampton... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - 1853 - 916 pages
...architecture. The former says, "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 vale of Tempi, the Academus at Athens, and other public gardens of the time, seem, however, to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, ommended : for that books such part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter; holly; ivy; bays ; juniper ; cypress-trees;... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...and as men 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...year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be in season. ****«••• And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pages
...and as men 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...year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be in season. * * * * * * * * And because the breath of flowers is far sweater in the air (where it comes... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 pages
...and as men shall ever se£, 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 Imld it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the mouths in the year,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pages
...to attach to a Royal residence as Eoyal a garden ; but as Bacon says, '.'men begin to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." The mansion of Alcinous was of brazen walls with golden columns ; and the Greeks and Eomans had houses... | |
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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... 
