 | 1822 - 690 pages
...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 historically accordant with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 406 pages
...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, at which when a lamp (of an orbicular figure... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 410 pages
...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, at which when a lamp (of an orbicular figure... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...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 Elian's various history, and of... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...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 what is good and fair, This... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 630 pages
...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. The taste of Pope was perhaps... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 pages
...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. The taste of Pope was perhaps... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter: holly, ivy,bays,juniper, cypress-trees,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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...season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter: holly, ivy,bays,juniper, cypress-trees,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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...season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you most take such things as are green all winter: holly, iry,bays,juniper, cypress-trees,... | |
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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... 
