The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artJ. M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة v
... delightful subject ; to show lovers of gardens and literature alike that the title of the volume was meant in the good old wide- embracing sense of Elizabethan days , when to praise a subject was also to appraise and appreciate it . If ...
... delightful subject ; to show lovers of gardens and literature alike that the title of the volume was meant in the good old wide- embracing sense of Elizabethan days , when to praise a subject was also to appraise and appreciate it . If ...
الصفحة xvi
... delights ' tis not easy to hold a mediocrity ; that insinuating pleasure is seldom without some extremity . " — Sir ... delight in reading about one . But the enjoyment next below actual possession seems to be derived from writing on ...
... delights ' tis not easy to hold a mediocrity ; that insinuating pleasure is seldom without some extremity . " — Sir ... delight in reading about one . But the enjoyment next below actual possession seems to be derived from writing on ...
الصفحة 4
... delight in husbandry as he does in war . Soc . I have not yet done concerning him ; for in every country where he resides , or passes a little time , he takes care to have excellent gardens ( such as are called Paradeisioi ) , 1 filled ...
... delight in husbandry as he does in war . Soc . I have not yet done concerning him ; for in every country where he resides , or passes a little time , he takes care to have excellent gardens ( such as are called Paradeisioi ) , 1 filled ...
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An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-art Albert Forbes Sieveking. delight in gardening ; for , as you intimate ... delightful odours which issued from them . Lysander could no longer refrain from extolling the beauty of their order ...
An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-art Albert Forbes Sieveking. delight in gardening ; for , as you intimate ... delightful odours which issued from them . Lysander could no longer refrain from extolling the beauty of their order ...
الصفحة 6
... delightful it is , and how summer - like and shrill it sounds from the choir of grasshoppers . But the most delightful of all is the grass , which with its gentle slope is naturally adapted to give an easy support to the head , as one ...
... delightful it is , and how summer - like and shrill it sounds from the choir of grasshoppers . But the most delightful of all is the grass , which with its gentle slope is naturally adapted to give an easy support to the head , as one ...
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الصفحة 262 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
الصفحة xv - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices : A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
الصفحة 310 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate. The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers, 'I wait.
الصفحة 61 - 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...
الصفحة 337 - Of a steep wilderness whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild. Access denied; and overhead up - grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
الصفحة 338 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose: Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant ; meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispers'd, or in a lake, That to the fringed bank with myrtle crown'd Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.
الصفحة 310 - Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown.
الصفحة 212 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
الصفحة 63 - ... or desert, in the going forth, and the main garden in the 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 twelve to the main garden.