 | John Nowell - 1844 - 106 pàgines
...damascene, To yield him fruit, untouch'd till Autumn came, And the plane-tree to minister its shade. " 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... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pàgines
...phenomena of the growth of trees. " God Almighty," says he, in his quaint but emphatic language, " first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handywork." The garden at Gorhambury was laid out with great taste, and according to the rules of the... | |
 | 1844 - 628 pàgines
...therefore, am obliged to give it from memory. " God Almighty first planted a garden," says Francis Bacon ; " and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks." One can almost fancy the Chancellor leaning on the arm of a friend, and walking in his... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 pàgines
...a house in a hole or on a pinnacle. " God Almighty first planted a garden," says Lord Bacon, " and it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest...without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks ; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | 1845 - 584 pàgines
...the suiest evidence of a refined and intellectual community. ' ' God Almighty,' says Lord Bacon, ' first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works; and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | Charles Mason Hovey - 1845 - 504 pàgines
...affords the surest evidence of a refined and intellectual community. ' God Almighty,' says Lord Bacon, ' first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreahment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works ;... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pàgines
...galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. And here is the Forty-sixth, " Of Gardens," in full :— God Almighty first planted a, garden, and indeed it...without which buildings and palaces are but gross bandy-works. And a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | 1886 - 1468 pàgines
...Jakobs I. gethan hat: „God Almighty — so beginnt Baco von Verulam seinen Essay „Of Gardens" — first planted a garden; and indeed it is the purest...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pàgines
...galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. And here is the Forty-sixth," Of Gardens," in full :— God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which huildings and palaces are hut gross handy-works. And a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility... | |
 | John Armstrong - 1846 - 314 pàgines
...observation.f Thus recommended (apart from its pecuniary * Lord Bacon calls it " the purest of human pleasures, the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks." t Of those among the ancients who may be considered as authorities, Cicero is perhaps... | |
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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 handyworks... 
