 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 662
...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... | |
 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 656
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 682
...but gross handy-works." The same profound and elegant writer observes, that " a man shall ever sec that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; aa if gardening were the greater perfection." To this perfection, we trust, we arc rapidly arriving... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...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." forms; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which when a lamp (of an orbicular figure... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...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." forms; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material, at which when a lamp (of an orbicular figure... | |
 | 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 690
...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... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 1494
...notwithstanding the progress of the sister art of architecture, which gave rise to the remark of the former, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." The description of the vale of Tempe', however, in the third book of Elian's various history, and of... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...are but gross handiworks. And a man shall i- v IT MM', that when ages grow to civility and elegancv, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. VERULAM. BOOK I. To thee, divine Simplicity! to thee, Best arbitress of what is good and fair, This... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...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... | |
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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... 
