The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artJ. M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 من الصفحات |
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... trees and cherries redder than the ruby.1 The ripe peaches 2 of the garden resembled bronze , and the groves had the lustre of the stone nashem , 3 The menni unshelled like cocoa - nuts they brought to us , its shade was fresh and airy ...
... trees and cherries redder than the ruby.1 The ripe peaches 2 of the garden resembled bronze , and the groves had the lustre of the stone nashem , 3 The menni unshelled like cocoa - nuts they brought to us , its shade was fresh and airy ...
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... trees , along the whole length of the exterior wall : four tanks of water , bordered by a grass plot , where geese were kept , and the delicate flower of the lotus was encouraged to grow , served for the irrigation of the grounds ; and ...
... trees , along the whole length of the exterior wall : four tanks of water , bordered by a grass plot , where geese were kept , and the delicate flower of the lotus was encouraged to grow , served for the irrigation of the grounds ; and ...
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... trees which you here behold are of my own appointment ; I it was that contrived , measured , laid out the ground for planting these trees , and I can even show you some of them that I planted with my own hands .'- ' Econo- micus ...
... trees which you here behold are of my own appointment ; I it was that contrived , measured , laid out the ground for planting these trees , and I can even show you some of them that I planted with my own hands .'- ' Econo- micus ...
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... trees at our feet , and apples in number rolled down at our sides , and the young plum - trees were bent to the earth with the weight of their fruit . - Idyll VII . , Thalysia , translated by Walter Pater . www Marcus Porcius Cato the ...
... trees at our feet , and apples in number rolled down at our sides , and the young plum - trees were bent to the earth with the weight of their fruit . - Idyll VII . , Thalysia , translated by Walter Pater . www Marcus Porcius Cato the ...
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... trees , or of the vyneyardes , or of the maner of olyve trees I shall declare brevely . The grounde well tylled and ordred , nothing may be more plenteous in profyte , nor more clenly and comly in syght : to the whiche grounde to be ...
... trees , or of the vyneyardes , or of the maner of olyve trees I shall declare brevely . The grounde well tylled and ordred , nothing may be more plenteous in profyte , nor more clenly and comly in syght : to the whiche grounde to be ...
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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...