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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... 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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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.