 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 Seiten
...good taste in gardening was unquestionable. " For the honour of this art," Lord Bacon says, " a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." Warton. The taste in gardening, like all other arts, must be progressive. The taste of Pope was perhaps... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 Seiten
...refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and...year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 Seiten
...refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and...year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 Seiten
...which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages rrow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you most take such things... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 370 Seiten
...in splenetic vacancy. Having mentioned the name of Bacon, let us not omit to record his assertion, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection :" a remark no less honourable to the noble science of horticulture, than historically accordant with... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - 1826 - 306 Seiten
...allowance, outweigh a whole theatre of others." I have always been much pleased with Bacon's remark, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely ;" as if gardening were the greater perfection. A fine taste in gardening has not till lately been much estimated. Ben Jonson coldly says, " In a meadow,... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - 1828 - 626 Seiten
...notwithstanding the progress of the sister art of architecture, which gave rise to his lordship's remark, " That when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." The garden of Tarqumius Superbus, five hundred and four years before Christ, is mentioned by Livy and... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 Seiten
...In the royal ordering of gardcru, there ought to be garden* for all the months in the year. Bacon. When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. Id. Gardeners tread down any loos.' ground, after they have sown onions or turnips. /•.'. Natural... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 Seiten
...refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palace? are but gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and...year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things... | |
 | 1834 - 550 Seiten
...above description too, well corroborates that admirable remark with which the essay commences; — "When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finelv, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Our palaces and cathedrals are exumt proofs of... | |
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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... 
