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 vi
... Rose , John Tradescant , John Reid ( author of the ' Scots ' Gard'ner , ' 1683 , the earliest Scotch garden - book ) , John Dalrymple ( are all gardeners Johns ? ) , James Justice , and Gibson's Gardens about London , ' 1691 ? Well ...
... Rose , John Tradescant , John Reid ( author of the ' Scots ' Gard'ner , ' 1683 , the earliest Scotch garden - book ) , John Dalrymple ( are all gardeners Johns ? ) , James Justice , and Gibson's Gardens about London , ' 1691 ? Well ...
الصفحة viii
... Rose , John Tradescant , John Reid ( author of the ' Scots ' Gard'ner , ' 1683 , the earliest Scotch garden - book ) , John Dalrymple ( are all gardeners Johns ? ) , James Justice , and Gibson's ' Gardens about London , ' 1691 ? Well ...
... Rose , John Tradescant , John Reid ( author of the ' Scots ' Gard'ner , ' 1683 , the earliest Scotch garden - book ) , John Dalrymple ( are all gardeners Johns ? ) , James Justice , and Gibson's ' Gardens about London , ' 1691 ? Well ...
الصفحة x
... roses , an octagonal book - tower like Montaigne's rises upon arches forming an arbour of scented shade . Between the book- shelves , windows at every angle , as in Pliny's Villa library , opening upon a broad gallery supported by ...
... roses , an octagonal book - tower like Montaigne's rises upon arches forming an arbour of scented shade . Between the book- shelves , windows at every angle , as in Pliny's Villa library , opening upon a broad gallery supported by ...
الصفحة 16
... roses , and correct , by a very pleasing contrast the coolness of the shade with the warmth of the sun . Having passed through these several winding alleys , you enter a straight walk , which breaks out into a variety of others ...
... roses , and correct , by a very pleasing contrast the coolness of the shade with the warmth of the sun . Having passed through these several winding alleys , you enter a straight walk , which breaks out into a variety of others ...
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... Rose , and by the nourishment of warme waters , and the fit change of heat in winter time , cause a lily , a spring flower , to bloom ? Live not they against nature that plant orchards on their highest towers , that have whole forests ...
... Rose , and by the nourishment of warme waters , and the fit change of heat in winter time , cause a lily , a spring flower , to bloom ? Live not they against nature that plant orchards on their highest towers , that have whole forests ...
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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.