The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artJ. M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 من الصفحات |
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... shade . Between the book- shelves , windows at every angle , as in Pliny's Villa library , opening upon a broad gallery supported by pillars of ' faire carpenter's work , ' around which cluster flowering creepers , follow the course of ...
... shade . Between the book- shelves , windows at every angle , as in Pliny's Villa library , opening upon a broad gallery supported by pillars of ' faire carpenter's work , ' around which cluster flowering creepers , follow the course of ...
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... shade was fresh and airy , and soft for the repose of love ; ' Come to me , ' she called unto me , ' and enjoy thyself a day in the room of a young girl who belongs to me , the garden is to - day in its glory ; there is a terrace and a ...
... shade was fresh and airy , and soft for the repose of love ; ' Come to me , ' she called unto me , ' and enjoy thyself a day in the room of a young girl who belongs to me , the garden is to - day in its glory ; there is a terrace and a ...
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... shaded with trees , stood near the water , and overlooked beds of flowers . - Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson , The Ancient Egyptians.'1 A " -www GARDEN enclosed is my sister , my spouse ; a spring shut SOLOMON ( B. C. 1033- up , a fountain ...
... shaded with trees , stood near the water , and overlooked beds of flowers . - Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson , The Ancient Egyptians.'1 A " -www GARDEN enclosed is my sister , my spouse ; a spring shut SOLOMON ( B. C. 1033- up , a fountain ...
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... Shades and for Walks , with Fountains or Streams , and all Sorts of Plants usual in the Climate , and pleasant to the Eye , the Smell or the Taste ; or else employed like our Parks for Inclosure and Harbour of all Sorts of Wild Beasts ...
... Shades and for Walks , with Fountains or Streams , and all Sorts of Plants usual in the Climate , and pleasant to the Eye , the Smell or the Taste ; or else employed like our Parks for Inclosure and Harbour of all Sorts of Wild Beasts ...
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... shade and a gentle breeze , and grass to sit down upon , or , if we prefer it , to lie down on . Socr . Lead on , then . Socr . By Juno , a beautiful retreat . For this plane - tree is very wide - spreading and lofty , and the height ...
... shade and a gentle breeze , and grass to sit down upon , or , if we prefer it , to lie down on . Socr . Lead on , then . Socr . By Juno , a beautiful retreat . For this plane - tree is very wide - spreading and lofty , and the height ...
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الصفحة 230 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
الصفحة 3 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices : A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
الصفحة 67 - 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...
الصفحة 305 - Of a steep wilderness whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild. Access denied; and overhead up - grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
الصفحة 340 - ... college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
الصفحة 306 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose : Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant...
الصفحة 199 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
الصفحة 69 - ... or desert, 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.
الصفحة 305 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
الصفحة 100 - I NEVER had any other desire so strong and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniencies joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study of nature...