The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artJ. M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 من الصفحات |
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... wood which stretches along both Banks of the Cephisus from its source at the western foot of Mt. Pentelicus , nearly to the sea . Thus , though no remains of buildings belonging to it have as yet come to light , the situation of the ...
... wood which stretches along both Banks of the Cephisus from its source at the western foot of Mt. Pentelicus , nearly to the sea . Thus , though no remains of buildings belonging to it have as yet come to light , the situation of the ...
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... woods enclosing the adjacent hippodrome . Opposite almost to the centre of the portico stands a square edifice , which encompasses a small area , shaded by four plane- trees , in the midst of which a fountain rises , from whence the ...
... woods enclosing the adjacent hippodrome . Opposite almost to the centre of the portico stands a square edifice , which encompasses a small area , shaded by four plane- trees , in the midst of which a fountain rises , from whence the ...
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... wood ; with this difference only — that you are not exposed to the weather . In this place a fountain also rises and instantly disappears ; in different quarters are disposed marble seats , which serve , no less than the summer - house ...
... wood ; with this difference only — that you are not exposed to the weather . In this place a fountain also rises and instantly disappears ; in different quarters are disposed marble seats , which serve , no less than the summer - house ...
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... wood , affording an agreeable shade to the guests , who repose on couches of flowers ; the winds attend upon , and bring them everything necessary , except wine , which is otherwise provided , for there are large trees on every side ...
... wood , affording an agreeable shade to the guests , who repose on couches of flowers ; the winds attend upon , and bring them everything necessary , except wine , which is otherwise provided , for there are large trees on every side ...
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... woods , and close the concert . What most contributes to their happiness is , that near the symposium are two fountains , the one of milk , the other of pleasure ; from the first they drink at the beginning of the feast , there is ...
... woods , and close the concert . What most contributes to their happiness is , that near the symposium are two fountains , the one of milk , the other of pleasure ; from the first they drink at the beginning of the feast , there is ...
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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...