 | 1865 - 828 páginas
...for the grove and the flowers, "whose breath," aays Lord Bacon, " is fur sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand." The beautiful arts are brought before us by this illustration in their two classes — the arts of... | |
 | James Cundall - 1866 - 554 páginas
...soon loses its pleasant smell. Bacon says, " The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand;" and this is more especially true with the Moschatel) in the morning air. There is a charm, indeed,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 páginas
...although 'all Arabia breathes' from its recesses. 'The breath of flowers,' as Bacon beautifully observes, 'is far sweeter in the air, when it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand.' Even the rich illustrations which fancy scatters over the page of the orator or the poet, may be crowded... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 páginas
...perpaluum," as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter [13] in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, [14]... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 páginas
...climate of London ; but my meaning is perceived, that you may have ver perpetuum" as the place afibrds. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke - 1869 - 406 páginas
...he tells us in that Shakespearian bit, that ' the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.' But in endeavouring... | |
 | John Richard Vernon - 1869 - 384 páginas
...scent of dying leaves. He writes : — " Because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand ; therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1870 - 534 páginas
...1, — " The beast With many heads butts me away." • For instance, compare the following : — " And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music,) than in the hand," etc. Essay xlvi. " O, it... | |
 | J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 páginas
...gross handy-works." And he adds — " Because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air." As late as... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 páginas
...climate of London ; but my meaning is perceived, that you may have ver perpetuum^ as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit... | |
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And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music,) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. 
