The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artJ. M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 من الصفحات |
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... sort . . . . Why is thyme in Attica so bitter , whilst all the other fruits are so sweet ? Is it not because the soil of Attica is light and dry , so that plants do not find in it much moisture ? . . . Why do myrtles rubbed between the ...
... sort . . . . Why is thyme in Attica so bitter , whilst all the other fruits are so sweet ? Is it not because the soil of Attica is light and dry , so that plants do not find in it much moisture ? . . . Why do myrtles rubbed between the ...
الصفحة 15
... sort of terrace , embellished with various figures and bounded with a box - hedge , from whence you descend by an easy slope , adorned with the representation of divers animals in box , answering alter- nately to each other , into a ...
... sort of terrace , embellished with various figures and bounded with a box - hedge , from whence you descend by an easy slope , adorned with the representation of divers animals in box , answering alter- nately to each other , into a ...
الصفحة 17
... sort of dishes being placed round the margin , while the smaller ones swim about in the form of little vessels and water - fowl . Corre- sponding to this , is a fountain which is incessantly emptying and filling ; for the water , which ...
... sort of dishes being placed round the margin , while the smaller ones swim about in the form of little vessels and water - fowl . Corre- sponding to this , is a fountain which is incessantly emptying and filling ; for the water , which ...
الصفحة 36
... sort of trees ; and , indeed , I am not at all surprised at it , for they are very old ones , and were much more in vogue amongst our ancestors than they are at present . Having then told him the names of them , and that they were ...
... sort of trees ; and , indeed , I am not at all surprised at it , for they are very old ones , and were much more in vogue amongst our ancestors than they are at present . Having then told him the names of them , and that they were ...
الصفحة 37
... Flowers in the very Chequering of the Pavement . Here's a Wood now in Fresco ; there's a strange Variety of Matter in't ; so many Trees , and but one of a sort ; and all exprest to the . SIR : Life and so for the Birds too ,
... Flowers in the very Chequering of the Pavement . Here's a Wood now in Fresco ; there's a strange Variety of Matter in't ; so many Trees , and but one of a sort ; and all exprest to the . SIR : Life and so for the Birds too ,
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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...