 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 424 pages
...of this art," Lord Bacon 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
...architecture, which gave rise to 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 630 pages
...of this art," Lord Bacon 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
...of this art," Lord Bacon 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 - 1825 - 538 pages
...are but gross handyworks : 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 the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...are but gross handyworks : 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 the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
 | Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 374 pages
...of Bacon, let us not omit 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...are but gross handyworks : 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 the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1826 - 314 pages
...have always been much pleased with Bacon's remark, 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 fine taste in gardening has not till lately been much estimated. Ben Jonson coldly says, " In a meadow,... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - Gardening - 1828 - 626 pages
...architecture, which gave rise to his lordship's remark, " 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 garden of Tarqumius Superbus, five hundred and four years before Christ, is mentioned by Livy and... | |
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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... 
