Garden-craft Old and NewK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 215 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة x
... delightful ; an entire absence of display , and yet no element of perfect entertainment wanting . On these occasions , when supper was over , Mrs. Sedding usually played for us with great discernment and feeling the difficult music of ...
... delightful ; an entire absence of display , and yet no element of perfect entertainment wanting . On these occasions , when supper was over , Mrs. Sedding usually played for us with great discernment and feeling the difficult music of ...
الصفحة xiv
... delightful meetings of the Art Workers ' Guild , and his kindly recep- tion of me , his outstretched hand , and the unconscious backward impulses of his head , displaying the peculiar whiteness of the skin over the prominent temporal ...
... delightful meetings of the Art Workers ' Guild , and his kindly recep- tion of me , his outstretched hand , and the unconscious backward impulses of his head , displaying the peculiar whiteness of the skin over the prominent temporal ...
الصفحة xv
John Dando Sedding. find that he was just as delightful at work as in the world . " The peculiar half shy yet eager way in which he rushed into the front room , with a smile and a nod of recognition for each of us , always struck me ...
John Dando Sedding. find that he was just as delightful at work as in the world . " The peculiar half shy yet eager way in which he rushed into the front room , with a smile and a nod of recognition for each of us , always struck me ...
الصفحة xvii
... delightful old epitaph : ' Bonys emonge stonys lys ful steyl Quilst the soules wanderis where that God will . ' " * This delightful and assuredly entirely faithful picture * In Thornhill Church . is in itself evidence of the contagion ...
... delightful old epitaph : ' Bonys emonge stonys lys ful steyl Quilst the soules wanderis where that God will . ' " * This delightful and assuredly entirely faithful picture * In Thornhill Church . is in itself evidence of the contagion ...
الصفحة 3
... delight at Beauty's bidding . Even the Puritan , for all his gloomy creed and bleak undecorated life , is Romanticist here ; the hater of outward show turns rank courtier at a pageant of flowers : he will dare the devil at any moment ...
... delight at Beauty's bidding . Even the Puritan , for all his gloomy creed and bleak undecorated life , is Romanticist here ; the hater of outward show turns rank courtier at a pageant of flowers : he will dare the devil at any moment ...
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الصفحة 215 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face...
الصفحة 38 - ... another nature, in making things either better than nature bringeth forth or quite anew, forms such as never were in nature, as the heroes, demigods, cyclops...
الصفحة 14 - Meanwhile the mind from pleasure less Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
الصفحة 195 - Men have oftener suffered from the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings oversadly tinged. Haggard Egdon appealed to a subtler and scarcer instinct, to a more recently learnt emotion, than that which responds to the sort of beauty called charming and fair.
الصفحة 121 - 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.
الصفحة 73 - For gardens, (speaking of those which are, indeed, prince-like, as we have done of buildings,) the contents ought not well to be under thirty acres of ground, and to be divided into three parts; a green in the entrance, a heath, or desert, in the going forth, and the main garden in the midst, besides alleys on both sides...
الصفحة 202 - A lily of a day Is fairer far in May; Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
الصفحة 73 - ... 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. The green hath two pleasures: the one, because nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn...
الصفحة 17 - ... there be delights, there be recreations and jolly pastimes, that will fetch the day about from sun to sun, and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream.
الصفحة 75 - 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 handiworks.