Garden-craft Old and NewK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 215 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 16
... pretty thoughts and soft musings , with summer reveries and moon- light ecstasies , with love's occasion , and youth's yearning . No fitter place could well be found than this for the softer transactions of life that awaken love , poesy ...
... pretty thoughts and soft musings , with summer reveries and moon- light ecstasies , with love's occasion , and youth's yearning . No fitter place could well be found than this for the softer transactions of life that awaken love , poesy ...
الصفحة 40
... one hope to achieve of pretty garden - effects that shall please the eye , flatter the taste , and captivate the imagination of such as love Beauty ! 41 CHAPTER III . 66 HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE SKETCH OF 40 GARDEN - CRAFT .
... one hope to achieve of pretty garden - effects that shall please the eye , flatter the taste , and captivate the imagination of such as love Beauty ! 41 CHAPTER III . 66 HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE SKETCH OF 40 GARDEN - CRAFT .
الصفحة 46
... pretty much the same class of treatment , but here the paling is decorated with a chevron of white and red colour . To judge from old drawings , our forefathers seem to have been always partial to the greensward and trees , which is the ...
... pretty much the same class of treatment , but here the paling is decorated with a chevron of white and red colour . To judge from old drawings , our forefathers seem to have been always partial to the greensward and trees , which is the ...
الصفحة 47
... pretty view , but as a point of outlook in case of attack . Moreover , when situated in a park where the deer grazed , the un- scrupulous sportsman might from thence shoot a buck . In early days the mounts were constructed of wood or of ...
... pretty view , but as a point of outlook in case of attack . Moreover , when situated in a park where the deer grazed , the un- scrupulous sportsman might from thence shoot a buck . In early days the mounts were constructed of wood or of ...
الصفحة 71
... pretty beds of choice flowers . " There are , besides the temper of our climate , ” writes another seventeenth - century garden - worthy ( Temple ) , " two things particular to us , that con- tribute to the beauty and elegance of our ...
... pretty beds of choice flowers . " There are , besides the temper of our climate , ” writes another seventeenth - century garden - worthy ( Temple ) , " two things particular to us , that con- tribute to the beauty and elegance of our ...
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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.