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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... Side- Saddle , ' I owe my thanks for leave to use ' the Garden of Fin , at Kashan ' ; and for the sixth photogravure , ' In a Scotch Walled Garden , ' I am indebted to the photographic skill of my brother - in - law , Mr A. G. Campbell ...
... Side- Saddle , ' I owe my thanks for leave to use ' the Garden of Fin , at Kashan ' ; and for the sixth photogravure , ' In a Scotch Walled Garden , ' I am indebted to the photographic skill of my brother - in - law , Mr A. G. Campbell ...
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... side . 962-927 ) . And there grow tall trees blossoming , pear - trees and pomegranates , and apple - trees with bright fruit , and sweet figs , and olives in their bloom . The fruit of these trees never perisheth , neither faileth ...
... side . 962-927 ) . And there grow tall trees blossoming , pear - trees and pomegranates , and apple - trees with bright fruit , and sweet figs , and olives in their bloom . The fruit of these trees never perisheth , neither faileth ...
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... sides , and the young plum - trees were bent to the earth with the weight of their fruit .-- Idyll VII . , ' Thalysia , translated by Walter Pater . Marcus Porcius Cato the Censor , called by Livy a man of almost iron body M. PORCIUS ...
... sides , and the young plum - trees were bent to the earth with the weight of their fruit .-- Idyll VII . , ' Thalysia , translated by Walter Pater . Marcus Porcius Cato the Censor , called by Livy a man of almost iron body M. PORCIUS ...
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... side its breadth is 48 feet , and its length 72 , not including the semi - circular Capitol , which is of a diameter of 27 feet . Between the aviary and the walk which marks the lower margin of the tablets , opens a vaulted passage ...
... side its breadth is 48 feet , and its length 72 , not including the semi - circular Capitol , which is of a diameter of 27 feet . Between the aviary and the walk which marks the lower margin of the tablets , opens a vaulted passage ...
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... side with plane - trees covered with ivy , so that while their heads flourish with their own foliage , their bodies ... sides of the hippodrome , bends at the farther end into a semicircle , which , being set round and sheltered with ...
... side with plane - trees covered with ivy , so that while their heads flourish with their own foliage , their bodies ... sides of the hippodrome , bends at the farther end into a semicircle , which , being set round and sheltered with ...
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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.