Gardens Ancient and Modern: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artAlbert Forbes Sieveking J.M. Dent & Company, 1899 - 423 sider |
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Gardens Ancient and Modern: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-Art Albert Forbes Sieveking Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2018 |
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agreeable alleys ancient Androuet du Cerceau appeared arbour arches architecture artificial beautiful beds Beloeil better birds borders called canal cascades Claude Mollet colour Crispin de Pass Cut-work cypresses delight earth England English Garden Epicurus Evelyn flowers fountains France French fruit fruit-trees grass green grotto ground groves hath hedges herbs hill HISTORICAL EPILOGUE History History of Gardens Horace Walpole Humphry Repton imagination Italy Jardins JOHN JOHN EVELYN kind kitchen garden labyrinth laid Landscape Gardening lawns look Lord magnificent marble meadow Nature noble OLIVIER DE SERRES orchard ornaments painted palace Paradise park parterre plantations planted pleasant pleasure poet regular river rock roses scenes shade shrubs side sort spot square statues stone stream style sweet taste Temple terrace things translated trees variety verdure Versailles villa vines walks walls whole wild WILLIAM wind wood
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Side 238 - What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Side 313 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and, as the ranks ascend, Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Side 3 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices : A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Side 67 - 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...
Side 3 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
Side 207 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Side 69 - ... or desert, in the going forth, and the main garden in the midst, besides alleys on both sides ; and, I like well, that four acres of ground be assigned to the green, six to the heath, four and four to either side, and twelve to the main garden.
Side 101 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Side 348 - ... college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
Side 100 - I NEVER had any other desire so strong and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniencies joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study of nature...