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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الصفحة vii
... variety of voices joining in the choir of praise . It is vain to expect that everyone will be satisfied with the choice , and that all will find their favourite authors quoted or their favourite gardens mentioned . Many will wonder why ...
... variety of voices joining in the choir of praise . It is vain to expect that everyone will be satisfied with the choice , and that all will find their favourite authors quoted or their favourite gardens mentioned . Many will wonder why ...
الصفحة 15
... variety of forms . Beyond it is the Gestatio , laid out in the form of a circus , 4 ornamented in the middle with box cut in numberless different figures , together with a plantation of shrubs , prevented by the shears from shooting up ...
... variety of forms . Beyond it is the Gestatio , laid out in the form of a circus , 4 ornamented in the middle with box cut in numberless different figures , together with a plantation of shrubs , prevented by the shears from shooting up ...
الصفحة 16
... variety of others , divided by box- hedges . In one place you have a little meadow , in another the box is cut into a thousand different forms : 2 sometimes into letters expressing the name of the master ; sometimes that of the ...
... variety of others , divided by box- hedges . In one place you have a little meadow , in another the box is cut into a thousand different forms : 2 sometimes into letters expressing the name of the master ; sometimes that of the ...
الصفحة 17
... variety of names and shapes . At the upper end is an alcove of white marble , shaded by vines , supported by four small Carystian pillars . From this bench , the water , gushing through several little pipes , as if it were pressed out ...
... variety of names and shapes . At the upper end is an alcove of white marble , shaded by vines , supported by four small Carystian pillars . From this bench , the water , gushing through several little pipes , as if it were pressed out ...
الصفحة 37
... painted 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 , especially.
... painted 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 , especially.
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agreeable alleys ancient Androuet du Cerceau appeared arbours arched artificial beautiful beds Beloeil better birds Borders cabinet called canal cascades Claude Mollet colour Columella Crispin de Pass Cut-work cypresses delight earth elegant England English garden Epicurus Evelyn flowers fountains fruit fruit-trees grass green grotto ground groves hath hedges herbs hill HISTORICAL EPILOGUE History of Gardens Horace Walpole Humphry Repton imagination Italy Jardins JOHN EVELYN kind kitchen garden labyrinth Landscape Gardening lawns look Lord magnificent marble meadow nature noble OLIVIER DE SERRES orchard ornaments painted palace Paradise park parterre plantations plants pleasant pleasure poet regular river rock roses scenes seats shade shrubs side sort spot square statues stone stream style sweet taste Temple terrace thickets things translated trees turf variety verdure Versailles villa vines violets walks walls whole wild WILLIAM wind wood
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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.