Garden-craft Old and NewK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 215 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xi
... stone or panel , and in needlework . He understood them , and could handle them with perfect ease and freedom , each flower in his design seeming to fall naturally into its appointed place . Without transgressing the natural limits of ...
... stone or panel , and in needlework . He understood them , and could handle them with perfect ease and freedom , each flower in his design seeming to fall naturally into its appointed place . Without transgressing the natural limits of ...
الصفحة xiii
... stone lends itself to elaborate carving , was very sympathetic to Sedding , and he has added to and repaired many churches in that county , always taking the fine points in the old work and bringing them out by his own additions ...
... stone lends itself to elaborate carving , was very sympathetic to Sedding , and he has added to and repaired many churches in that county , always taking the fine points in the old work and bringing them out by his own additions ...
الصفحة 8
... down among moss- flecked stones into a deep dark pool , and is seen anon threading with still foot the careless - careful curved banks fringed with flowering shrubs and trailing willows and brambles 8 GARDEN - CRAFT ,
... down among moss- flecked stones into a deep dark pool , and is seen anon threading with still foot the careless - careful curved banks fringed with flowering shrubs and trailing willows and brambles 8 GARDEN - CRAFT ,
الصفحة 10
... stone was dug that built the house . Those banks of evergreens , full of choice specimens , what are they but on one side the screen to your kitchen stuff , and on the other side , the former tenant's con- trivance to assist him in ...
... stone was dug that built the house . Those banks of evergreens , full of choice specimens , what are they but on one side the screen to your kitchen stuff , and on the other side , the former tenant's con- trivance to assist him in ...
الصفحة 22
... stone besmeared with sluttish time . " There is a wealth of quiet interest in an old gar- den . We feel instinctively that the place has been warmed by the sunshine of humanity ; watered from the secret spring of human joy and sorrow ...
... stone besmeared with sluttish time . " There is a wealth of quiet interest in an old gar- den . We feel instinctively that the place has been warmed by the sunshine of humanity ; watered from the secret spring of human joy and sorrow ...
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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.