The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artJ. M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 من الصفحات |
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... , and affording a pleasant retreat in the heat of summer On the outside of the vineyard wall were planted rows. An Ancient Egyptian Garden ( after Rosellini ) . An Ancient Egyptian Garden ( after Rosellini ) . 2 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS.
... , and affording a pleasant retreat in the heat of summer On the outside of the vineyard wall were planted rows. An Ancient Egyptian Garden ( after Rosellini ) . An Ancient Egyptian Garden ( after Rosellini ) . 2 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS.
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... planted rows of palms , which occurred again with the dôm and other trees , along the whole length of the exterior wall : four tanks of water , bordered by a grass plot , where geese were kept , and the delicate flower of the lotus was ...
... planted rows of palms , which occurred again with the dôm and other trees , along the whole length of the exterior wall : four tanks of water , bordered by a grass plot , where geese were kept , and the delicate flower of the lotus was ...
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... planted , whereof the one part is being dried by the heat , a sunny plot on level ground , while other grapes men are gathering , and yet others they are tread- ing in the wine - press . In the foremost row are unripe grapes that cast ...
... planted , whereof the one part is being dried by the heat , a sunny plot on level ground , while other grapes men are gathering , and yet others they are tread- ing in the wine - press . In the foremost row are unripe grapes that cast ...
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... planting these trees , and I can even show you some of them that I planted with my own hands .'- ' Econo- micus , ' translated by R. Bradley , F.R.S. www SOCRATES . Lead on then , and at the same time look out PLATO for a place where we ...
... planting these trees , and I can even show you some of them that I planted with my own hands .'- ' Econo- micus , ' translated by R. Bradley , F.R.S. www SOCRATES . Lead on then , and at the same time look out PLATO for a place where we ...
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... planted to Rome and became Questor , Consul and Censor . A great orator , more than 150 of his orations having been long preserved , and one of the first Roman writers De Re Rusticâ , ' or Farm Management - fragments of his • Origines ...
... planted to Rome and became Questor , Consul and Censor . A great orator , more than 150 of his orations having been long preserved , and one of the first Roman writers De Re Rusticâ , ' or Farm Management - fragments of his • Origines ...
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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.