 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 handiworks...  The works of Francis Bacon - Pàgina 351per Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas James - 1852 - 108 pàgines
...flower in her " sunny locks." THE POETRY OF GARDENING: " Lilia mista rosis." — Softool Exercise. " GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of all human pleasures." I love Lord Bacon for that saying more than for his being the author of the '... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pàgines
...offices, let them stand at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XLVI. OF GARDENS. God Almighty first planted a garden; and,...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... | |
 | 1853 - 654 pàgines
...style of Christian minister that this century has produced. (17.) " GOD ALMIOHTY," says Lord Bacon, "first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces arc but gross handiworks." Passages of this spirit can be gathered from the choicest writers, in prose... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1853 - 744 pàgines
...bread and bitter herbs, not because more unpalatable than other food, but as a memorial of the den ; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ;...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which building and palaces are but gross handy works; and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pàgines
...Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours, in dance, Led on th' eternal spring. JOHN MILTOK, 1COS-1674. OF GARDENS. God Almighty first planted a garden ;...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork ; and as men shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pàgines
...let them stand sit distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XLVI. this " free-will offering " of the spirits of man ; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks: and a man shall... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 pàgines
...Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours, in dance, Led on th' eternal spring. JOHN MILTON, 1608-1674. OF GARDENS. God Almighty first planted a garden ;...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork ; and as men shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | Robert Richard Pearce - 1855 - 488 pàgines
...much he loved gardens, he tells us in his essays, which are dated from his " chamber in Graies Inn." " God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it...without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handy works." He gives directions how to have " ver perpetuum" in gardens, and with the ardour of a... | |
 | 1855 - 864 pàgines
...the commencement of which probably the reader knows by heart, it is so beautiful and so often quoted. "God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it...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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pàgines
...produced from the earth : which generates 1 " God Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it (a the purest of human pleasures : it is the greatest...buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works, and a man sliall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than... | |
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