Garden-craft Old and NewK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 215 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxv
... hill was fixed upon , and already the flowers they loved so well are blooming over them . Among the papers of Rose Sedding was found , pencilled in her own handwriting , the following lines of a 17th century poet : " ' Tis fit one flesh ...
... hill was fixed upon , and already the flowers they loved so well are blooming over them . Among the papers of Rose Sedding was found , pencilled in her own handwriting , the following lines of a 17th century poet : " ' Tis fit one flesh ...
الصفحة 7
... hill - side . We can run each thing to earth any day , only that a change has passed over them ; what in its original state was complex or general , is here made a chosen particular ; what was monotonous out there , is here mixed and ...
... hill - side . We can run each thing to earth any day , only that a change has passed over them ; what in its original state was complex or general , is here made a chosen particular ; what was monotonous out there , is here mixed and ...
الصفحة 33
... hills , hanging - gardens , flower- beds , terraces , and embowered nooks - a little fan- tastical it may be , but none the less eloquent of appreciation of natural beauty not confined to the gardener , but shared by the artist - maid ...
... hills , hanging - gardens , flower- beds , terraces , and embowered nooks - a little fan- tastical it may be , but none the less eloquent of appreciation of natural beauty not confined to the gardener , but shared by the artist - maid ...
الصفحة 39
... hill of primroses that with we " their infinitie Make a terrestrial gallaxie As the smal starres do the skie ; " follow him to the tangled thicket with its meandering walks carpeted with anemones and hung over with sweet - scented ...
... hill of primroses that with we " their infinitie Make a terrestrial gallaxie As the smal starres do the skie ; " follow him to the tangled thicket with its meandering walks carpeted with anemones and hung over with sweet - scented ...
الصفحة 54
... hills and dales and clumps of trees to beguile the enamoured visitor into the fond belief that Holland is not Holland : and , in the fore- ground the usual smiling wooden boy , shooting arrows at nothing , happy in the deed , and tin ...
... hills and dales and clumps of trees to beguile the enamoured visitor into the fond belief that Holland is not Holland : and , in the fore- ground the usual smiling wooden boy , shooting arrows at nothing , happy in the deed , and tin ...
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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.