 | Francis Bacon - 1888 - 336 pages
...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...you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to inclose the garden. But, because the alley will be long,... | |
 | Walter Howe - 1890 - 332 pages
...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...you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose the garden ; but because the alley will be long,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 pages
...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 ;...you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose the garden. But because the alley will be long,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 510 pages
...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 ;...green hath two pleasures : the one, because nothing is <vi HKe *y* than green grass kept finely shorn ; 'will give you a fair alley in the midst, t^\ VMi'4i... | |
 | John Dando Sedding - 1891 - 290 pages
...the midst, besides alleys on both sides ; and I like well that four acres be assigned to the Green, six to the Heath, four and four to either side, and...you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose the garden." " For the heath, which was the third... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...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...shorn; the other, because it will give you a fair alley iu the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to inclose the garden. But... | |
 | 1892 - 848 pages
...breadths of closely shaven grass no piece of ground can be other than beautiful ; as Bacon truly observed, "Nothing is more pleasant to the eye, than green grass kept finely shorn." There was one dominant feature in Elizabethan gardening which it were not well to see universally revived,... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1895 - 376 pages
...of closely shaven grass no piece of ground can be other than beautiful ; as Bacon truly observed, " Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn." There was one dominant feature in Elizabethan gardening which it were not well to see universally revived,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1897 - 448 pages
...; Six to the Heath, Foure and Foure to either Side ; 90 And Twelve to the Maine Garden. The Greene hath two pleasures; The one, because nothing is more Pleasant to the Eye then Greene Grasse kept finely shorne9; The other, because it will give you a faire Alley ih the midst,... | |
 | Cambridge Review - 1898 - 288 pages
...the west window of the chapel ; nor is there a better view of that great building in all Cambridge. "Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn," says Bacon. And the Fellows of King's seem to be of his opinion : at this moment the daisies are falling... | |
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The green hath two pleasures ; the one, because nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn ; the other, because it will give you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose... 
