 | Catherine Grace F. Gore, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1847 - 348 σελίδες
...spirits of man ; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks : and 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." Hints were sometimes thrown out by the Howard Smiths,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 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." — Warton. The taste in gardening, like all other... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1847 - 426 σελίδες
...the passages I meant, I cannot fill up my paper better than with some of them. " A man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, soon then to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it that in the Royal... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 σελίδες
...spirits of man, without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks; 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." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays... | |
 | 1848 - 400 σελίδες
...ROADS.— Lord Bacon regarded successful gardening as the last touch of civilization— " when nations grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely" — but we slightly differ from him — good roads, it strikes us, are about the ultimatum. The rich,... | |
 | James Fergusson - 1849 - 584 σελίδες
...pleasures, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; 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." Which is perhaps true, as far as it goes; but gardens... | |
 | James Richardson Logan - 1849 - 914 σελίδες
...spirits of man, without which building and palaces are bat grw» 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." So wrote Francis Lord Bacon near 300 years ago, and this... | |
 | 1887 - 994 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 thnn to ganlen 6nely: äs if gardening were the greater perfeetion.'' Wie tritt, hier sogleich die... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 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." — Lord Bacon, Essay 46. such great trunks and branches... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 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... | |
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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... 
