 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 σελίδες
...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 elegancy, men...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely : as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of Gardens, there... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 σελίδες
...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 elegancy, men...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely : as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of Gardens, there... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 σελίδες
...of man ; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works : and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 σελίδες
...spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works: and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. 1 do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there... | |
 | 1821 - 656 σελίδες
...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...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection :" a remark no less honourable to the noble science of... | |
 | 1821 - 416 σελίδες
...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, men...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 614 σελίδες
...spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy works: and aman shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. -And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 σελίδες
...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...come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." The description of the vale of Tempe', however, in the... | |
 | 1822 - 690 σελίδες
...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...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection:" a remark no less honourable to the noble science of horticulture,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 406 σελίδες
...gardening was unquestionable. " For the honour of this art," Lord Bacon says, " a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." forms; and in the ceiling is a star of the same material,... | |
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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... 
