 And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.  Bacon: His Writings and His Philosophy - Page 75by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight,...air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells;8 so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness : yea, though... | |
 | Osborne William Tancock - 1874 - 350 pages
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight...yield no smell, as they grow; rosemary little, nor sweet-marjoram. That which, above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air, is the violet ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to 1 Ribes. Currants. ' Rasps. Raspberries. ' Now will the corinths, now the rasps, supply Delicious draughts.'—Phillips... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 pages
...of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight,...best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast 1J flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a 1 Flower-de-luce. 1 Currants. 1 Raspberries.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...flowers is far sweeter in the 50 air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight...air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smell ; so that you may walk by a whole 5S 56 <®f Gartens [Essay 46 row of them, and find nothing... | |
 | 1876 - 686 pages
...continues Bacon, " is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the " warbling of music, than in the hand ; therefore nothing is more fit " for that...flowers and plants that do " best perfume the air." Wheeler's " Little Book " is ready to inform us. Those who prefer a " Lady Corisande's garden," a wilderness... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight,...their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of ' TI, and find nothing of their sweetness : yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays likewise yield... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 pages
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight,...the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. 1 Roses, damask and red, 2 are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row'of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1878 - 790 pages
...flowers is far sweeter in the air i (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in f the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight,...the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. 4 Roses, damask and red*, are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...flowers is far sweeter in the 50 air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight...air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smell ; so that you may walk by a whole 55 row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness, yea, though... | |
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