| John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 sider
...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 third book of... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 sider
...are but gross handiworks. And a man shall i- v IT MM', that when ages grow to civility and elegancv, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. VERULAM. BOOK I. To thee, divine Simplicity! to thee, Best arbitress of... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 sider
...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 arts, must be progressive.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 630 sider
...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 arts, must be progressive.... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 sider
...are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages rrow 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 ought to be gardens... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 sider
...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 ought to be gardens... | |
| Horace Smith - 1825 - 374 sider
...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, than... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 sider
...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 ought to be gardens... | |
| Joseph Cradock - 1826 - 314 sider
...have always been much pleased with Bacon's remark, 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 fine taste in gardening has not till lately been much estimated. Ben... | |
| Charles McIntosh - 1828 - 626 sider
...architecture, which gave rise to his lordship's remark, " 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 garden of Tarqumius Superbus, five hundred and four years before... | |
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