 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 handyworks...  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Pagina 230door Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 614 pagina’s
...described in language of so much beauty, that we shall trespass on our page with a few brief specimens. ' God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed,...buildings and palaces are but gross handy works: and aman shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pagina’s
...at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. . . XLVII. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed,...to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and pulaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 pagina’s
...garden seems to have been the supreme delight of our old authors. " God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, " first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works." Perhaps in the shady walks of his garden, Bacon felt his mind purified from its grosser... | |
 | 1822 - 600 pagina’s
...garden seems to have been the supreme delight of our old authors. " God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, " first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are butgross handy-works." Perhaps in the shady walks of his garden. Bacon felt his mind purified from... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pagina’s
...garden seems to liave been the supreme delight of our old authors. " God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, " first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are butgross handy- works." Perhaps in the shady walks of his garden. Bacon felt his mind purified from... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pagina’s
...heartfelt ecstasy ! She gives to Honour, Love, and me. THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 3in Jpout ISoofes. A garden is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall i- v IT MM', that when ages grow to civility and elegancv, men come to... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pagina’s
...Almighty first planted a garden ; and that jt constitutes the purest source of human pleasures. A garden is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but of inferior value. Pomfret, in his Choice, does not forget to desire a garden to contribute to his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 pagina’s
...one Bacon has left us in his well-known essay. A garden to him was ' the purest of humane pleasures, the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and pallaces are but grosse handyworks.' The ' princelike' garden of the period should not, he thought,... | |
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