 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...handy-works. And a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to huild 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 he gardens for all the months in the year,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...spirits of man, 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 (tately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it in... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1847 - 348 pages
...spirits of man ; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks : and man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." Hints were sometimes thrown out by the Howard Smiths, touching the folly of wasting large sums upon... | |
 | 1880 - 494 pages
...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks, and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Many of our common flowers and even fruit-trees were first introduced in the monastic ages, the good... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...gardening was unquestionable. " For the honour of this art," Lord Bacon says, " a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...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... | |
 | Calamus Kurrens (pseud.) - 1847 - 94 pages
...and buildings are but gross handyworks. A man " shall ever see that when ages grow to civility arid elegancy, men come to " build stately, sooner than...garden finely ; as if gardening were the " greater perfection."—LORD BACON. " Mira qusedam in colendis floribus suavitas, et delectatio."—CICERO.... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Great Britain - 1847 - 426 pages
...the passages I meant, I cannot fill up my paper better than with some of them. " A man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, soon then to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it that in the Royal... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...spirits of man, without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings, and on Gardens, with many pleasing... | |
 | Agriculture - 1848 - 400 pages
...ROADS.— Lord Bacon regarded successful gardening as the last touch of civilization— " when nations grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely" — but we slightly differ from him — good roads, it strikes us, are about the ultimatum. The rich,... | |
 | James Fergusson - Aesthetics - 1849 - 584 pages
...pleasures, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Which is perhaps true, as far as it goes; but gardens want that durability which gives to buildings... | |
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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... 
