 | 1821 - 416 páginas
...with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. . . XLVII. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest...to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and pulaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 598 páginas
...difficulty in so doing. A garden seems to have been the supreme delight of our old authors. " God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, " first planted a garden ; and, indeed,...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works." Perhaps in the shady walks of his garden, Bacon felt his mind purified... | |
 | 1822 - 592 páginas
...in so doing. A garden seems to liave been the supreme delight of our old authors. " God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, " first planted a garden ; and, indeed,...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are butgross handy- works." Perhaps in the shady walks of his garden. Bacon felt his mind purified... | |
 | 1822 - 600 páginas
...difficulty in so doing. A garden seems to have been the supreme delight of our old authors. " God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, " first planted a garden ; and, indeed,...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are butgross handy-works." Perhaps in the shady walks of his garden. Bacon felt his mind purified from... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 páginas
...heartfelt ecstasy ! She gives to Honour, Love, and me. THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 3in Jpout ISoofes. A garden is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall i- v IT MM', that when ages grow to civility and elegancv,... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 páginas
...Almighty first planted a garden ; and that jt constitutes the purest source of human pleasures. A garden is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but of inferior value. Pomfret, in his Choice, does not forget to desire a garden to contribute... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 páginas
...one Bacon has left us in his well-known essay. A garden to him was ' the purest of humane pleasures, the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and pallaces are but grosse handyworks.' The ' princelike' garden of the period should not, he thought,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1823 - 330 páginas
...one of the most amusing and intellectual pursuits of rural life. " A garden," says my Lord Bacon, " is the purest of human pleasures : it is the greatest...spirits of man ; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks" ; — and whoever is sceptical on this subject will do well to read over... | |
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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 handyworks... 
