 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.  The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment - Side 3301832Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 sider
...weeping: These are flowers Of middle Summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age. And because the breat.h of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where...be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.1 Roses, damask and red,2 are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 sider
...text— but we also believe that he may have had before his mind Bacon's sentence of similar beauty, " tual, and he hath holp' to eat it: he's a very \aliant...he hath an excellent stomach. Men. And a good sold 4. Quick. Shakespeare uses this word here, and elsewhere, in the sense of ' lively,' ' vital.' 5. Validity.... | |
 | 1864 - 742 sider
...music as perfume. Possibly Milton had read this passage in Bacon's essay on gardens. " And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where...goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand," &c. Comus offers to guide the lady out of the woods, and, exeunt. Then the brothers enter and converse... | |
 | Burges Johnson - 1927 - 340 sider
...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...the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of then- smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them,... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 sider
...London; but my meaning is perceived, that you may have vcr perpetuum,* as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where...the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them,... | |
 | 1896 - 926 sider
...our thinking, far too little stress is laid in the gardens of the present day. "And because," says he "the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it cometh and goeth like the warbling of musick) than in the hand; therefore nothing is more fit for that... | |
 | 1909 - 378 sider
...is perceived, that you may have ver perpetuum [perpetual spring], as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where...the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers" of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them,... | |
 | 1925 - 966 sider
...a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour, and from this to Bacon's essay On Gardens : ' Because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music). . . . That which, above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air, is the violet.' And, as they... | |
 | Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) - 1899 - 788 sider
...PERFUMES, ESSENTIAL OILS, &c., AND PLANTS WHICH AFFOED THEM. " The breath of flowers is far sweeter upon the air where it comes and goes like the warbling...nothing is more fit for that delight than to know something of the dowers thai do best perfume the air."—Lord Bacon. ACCORDING to Dr. Piesse, the six... | |
 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 434 sider
...their eies, / or musick in their eare' (Vision of Delight 51-4, Ben Jonson 7, 465); and Bacon:'. . .the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music)' (Of Gardens, Works 6, 487)556-9 Silence . . .so dispiaci. [Silence was so charmed (for took see Nat... | |
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