 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...palaces are but gross handy-works. 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 oidering of gardens there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year,... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1886 - 1470 pages
...are but gross handy-works. 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." Wie tritt hier sogleich die kulturhistorische und künstlerische Erfassung der Gartenanlage, die harmonische... | |
 | The Cultivator - 1846 - 408 pages
...than refined horticultural pursuits. " When nations grow to civility and elegance," said Lord Bacon, " men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection,"—a perfection on the prevalence of which, even our republican edifice in a great measure... | |
 | 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
...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 the royal ordering of gardens there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year,... | |
 | 1880 - 494 pages
...palaces are but gross handiworks, 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." Many of our common flowers and even fruit-trees were first introduced in the monastic ages, the good... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1847 - 348 pages
...palaces are but gross handiworks : and 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." Hints were sometimes thrown out by the Howard Smiths, touching the folly of wasting large sums upon... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 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... | |
 | Calamus Kurrens (pseud.) - 1847 - 94 pages
...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 to garden finely ; as if gardening were the " greater perfection."—LORD BACON. " Mira qusedam in colendis floribus suavitas, et delectatio."—CICERO.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...palaces are but gross handiworks; 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." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings, and on Gardens, with many pleasing... | |
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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... 
