 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 New-England Magazine - Page 82edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells; so that you... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants, that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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...delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses damask and red are flowers tenacious of their smells, so that you... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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...delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses damask and red are flowers tenacious of their smells, so that you... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...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...delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells; so that you... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 614 pages
...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 Ïlauts that do best perfume the air.' For the heath wish it to be framed as much as may be to a natural... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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 ' e flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Hoses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their... | |
 | 1822 - 600 pages
...would almost persuade one that the heart which conceived such thoughts could know no wickedness: — " And because the breath of flowers is farre sweeter...the aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling ofmusicke) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the... | |
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