The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artJ. M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 من الصفحات |
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... wall , with a canal of water passing in front of it , connected with the river . Between the canal and the wall , and parallel to them both , was a shady avenue of various trees ; and about the centre was the entrance , through a lofty ...
... wall , with a canal of water passing in front of it , connected with the river . Between the canal and the wall , and parallel to them both , was a shady avenue of various trees ; and about the centre was the entrance , through a lofty ...
الصفحة 2
... wall extending round it separated this part from the rest of the garden . At the upper end were suites of rooms on three different storeys , looking upon green trees , and affording a pleasant retreat in the heat of summer On the ...
... wall extending round it separated this part from the rest of the garden . At the upper end were suites of rooms on three different storeys , looking upon green trees , and affording a pleasant retreat in the heat of summer On the ...
الصفحة 3
... wall were 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 ...
... wall were 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 ...
الصفحة 11
... walls . The external lines of the building give it some resemblance to writing tablets , surmounted by a Capitol ... walls replace the colonnade . Beyond is a grove of tall brushwood encompassed with walls , of which the thick growth ...
... walls . The external lines of the building give it some resemblance to writing tablets , surmounted by a Capitol ... walls replace the colonnade . Beyond is a grove of tall brushwood encompassed with walls , of which the thick growth ...
الصفحة 12
... walls were made very strong , built at no small charge and expense , being 22 feet thick , and every sally port 10 feet wide . Over the several storeys of this fabric were laid beams , and summers of large massy stones , each 16 feet ...
... walls were made very strong , built at no small charge and expense , being 22 feet thick , and every sally port 10 feet wide . Over the several storeys of this fabric were laid beams , and summers of large massy stones , each 16 feet ...
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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.