Garden-craft Old and NewK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 215 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 9
... ideal grown to a fine lunacy . It is piquant wonder- ment ; culminated beauty , that for all its combination of telling and select items , can still contrive to look natural , debonair , native to its place . A garden is Nature aglow ...
... ideal grown to a fine lunacy . It is piquant wonder- ment ; culminated beauty , that for all its combination of telling and select items , can still contrive to look natural , debonair , native to its place . A garden is Nature aglow ...
الصفحة 10
... ideal : half may be for the lust of the eye , yet half is for domestic drudgery ; half is for beauty , The garden is contrived " a double half for use . debt to pay . " Yonder mass of foliage that bounds the garden , with its winding ...
... ideal : half may be for the lust of the eye , yet half is for domestic drudgery ; half is for beauty , The garden is contrived " a double half for use . debt to pay . " Yonder mass of foliage that bounds the garden , with its winding ...
الصفحة 11
... ideal " ; the Japanese will even combine upon his trees the tints of spring and autumn . * But everywhere , and in all ages of the civilised world , man spares no pains to acquire the choicest specimens , the rarest plants , and to give ...
... ideal " ; the Japanese will even combine upon his trees the tints of spring and autumn . * But everywhere , and in all ages of the civilised world , man spares no pains to acquire the choicest specimens , the rarest plants , and to give ...
الصفحة 18
... ideal his artifice to escape the materialism of a world that is too actual and too much with him . A well - kept garden makes credible to modern eyes the antique fable of an unspoiled world - a world where gaiety knows no eclipse , and ...
... ideal his artifice to escape the materialism of a world that is too actual and too much with him . A well - kept garden makes credible to modern eyes the antique fable of an unspoiled world - a world where gaiety knows no eclipse , and ...
الصفحة 21
... ideal and stimulated their sense of beauty . And if further proof be needed of the large hold the garden and its contents had of the affections of past generations , we have but to turn to the old poets , and to note how the texture of ...
... ideal and stimulated their sense of beauty . And if further proof be needed of the large hold the garden and its contents had of the affections of past generations , we have but to turn to the old poets , and to note how the texture of ...
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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.