Garden-craft Old and NewK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 215 من الصفحات |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 16
الصفحة x
... 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 Beethoven , Grieg , Chopin , and others , and sometimes she sang ...
... 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 Beethoven , Grieg , Chopin , and others , and sometimes she sang ...
الصفحة xi
... perfect ease and freedom , each flower in his design seeming to fall naturally into its appointed place . Without transgressing the natural limits of the material employed , he yet never failed to give to each its own essential ...
... perfect ease and freedom , each flower in his design seeming to fall naturally into its appointed place . Without transgressing the natural limits of the material employed , he yet never failed to give to each its own essential ...
الصفحة xxv
... perfect peace . At the wish of his wife , his grave was prepared at West Wickham . The Solemn Requiem , by her wish also , was at the church he loved and served so well , St. Alban's , Holborn . That church has witnessed many striking ...
... perfect peace . At the wish of his wife , his grave was prepared at West Wickham . The Solemn Requiem , by her wish also , was at the church he loved and served so well , St. Alban's , Holborn . That church has witnessed many striking ...
الصفحة 16
... perfect understanding that exists between the artist and his materials . The sense of ownership and responsibility brings him satisfaction , of a cheaper sort . His the hand that holds the wand to the garden's magic ; his the initiating ...
... perfect understanding that exists between the artist and his materials . The sense of ownership and responsibility brings him satisfaction , of a cheaper sort . His the hand that holds the wand to the garden's magic ; his the initiating ...
الصفحة 47
... perfect circles , without any Bulwarks or Imbossments , and the whole Mount to be thirty foot high , and some fine Banquetting House with some chimneys neatly cast , and without too much Glass . " The " mount " is said to have been ...
... perfect circles , without any Bulwarks or Imbossments , and the whole Mount to be thirty foot high , and some fine Banquetting House with some chimneys neatly cast , and without too much Glass . " The " mount " is said to have been ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
acres alleys architectural artistic avenue Bacon balustrade beauty beds birds Brown century charming civilised clipt colour common delight Dutch garden earth effects England English garden essay Evelyn fair fancy Flower Garden flower-beds foreign formal fountains fruit garden-craft geometrical give grass green ground Hampton Court hand hills Horace Walpole human ideal idealised imaginative Jacobean eras John Sedding land landscape landscape-gardener lawn living look Loudon man's matter mind modern garden Moor Park Nature Nature's ness never noble Nonsuch old garden old-fashioned garden orchard ornamental park parterres perfect Perspective view picturesque plants Platanus pleasure pretty quincunx Repton Richard Jefferies romance rose says scene scenery school of gardeners sense shapes shrubs side slope speak stone style sweet taste terrace things tion touch trees and shrubs turf variety Villa Albani Villa Borghese walks walls West Wickham wild wood woodland writes
مقاطع مشهورة
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.