 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | James Richardson Logan - 1849 - 914 pages
...are bat grw» 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." So wrote Francis Lord Bacon near 300 years ago, and this pleasure still... | |
 | James Fergusson - Aesthetics - 1849 - 584 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." Which is perhaps true, as far as it goes; but gardens want that durability... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 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." — Lord Bacon, Essay 46. such great trunks and branches from so small... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...palaces 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 882 pages
...dreamed of by any one else in his time in the passage, " When ages do grow to civility and elegance, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." AValler, at his residence at Beaconsficld, is said to have presented... | |
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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... 
