Gardens Ancient and Modern: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artAlbert Forbes Sieveking J.M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 من الصفحات |
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... planted rows of palms , which occurred again with the dom and other 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 ...
... planted rows of palms , which occurred again with the dom and other 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 ...
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... planted , whereof the one part is being dried by the heat , a sunny plot on level ground , while other grapes men are gathering , and yet others they are tread- ing in the wine - press . In the foremost row are unripe grapes that cast ...
... planted , whereof the one part is being dried by the heat , a sunny plot on level ground , while other grapes men are gathering , and yet others they are tread- ing in the wine - press . In the foremost row are unripe grapes that cast ...
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... planting these trees , and I can even show you some of them that I planted with my own hands . ' ' Econo- micus , translated by R. Bradley , F.R.S. www SOCRATES . Lead on then , and at the same time look out PLATO for a place where we ...
... planting these trees , and I can even show you some of them that I planted with my own hands . ' ' Econo- micus , translated by R. Bradley , F.R.S. www SOCRATES . Lead on then , and at the same time look out PLATO for a place where we ...
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... planted to Rome and became Quæstor , Consul and Censor . A great orator , more than 150 of his orations having been long preserved , and one of the first Roman writers ' De Re Rusticâ , ' or Farm Management - fragments of his Origines ...
... planted to Rome and became Quæstor , Consul and Censor . A great orator , more than 150 of his orations having been long preserved , and one of the first Roman writers ' De Re Rusticâ , ' or Farm Management - fragments of his Origines ...
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... planted with all sorts of trees , which both for beauty and size might delight the spectators . The arches , which stood one above the other had in them many stately rooms of all kinds , and for all purposes . There was one that had in ...
... planted with all sorts of trees , which both for beauty and size might delight the spectators . The arches , which stood one above the other had in them many stately rooms of all kinds , and for all purposes . There was one that had in ...
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الصفحة 236 - 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 288 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate. The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers, 'I wait.
الصفحة 3 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
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 313 - 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 313 - 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 237 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there : Two paradises 'twere in one, To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new; Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run, And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we ! How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers...
الصفحة 205 - 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.