...REFRESHMENT TO THE SPIRITS OF MAN ; WITHOUT WHICH BUILDINGS AND PALACES ARE BUT GROSS HANDY-WORKS. AND A MAN SHALL EVER SEE, THAT WHEN AGES GROW TO CIVILITY...COME TO BUILD STATELY, SOONER THAN TO GARDEN FINELY I AS IF GARDENING WERE THE GREATER PERFECTION. VERULA M. LONDON PRINTED: And Sold by J. DODSLEY, in...

...SPIRII S OF MAN, WITHOUT WHICH BUILDINGS AND PALACES ARE BUT GR09S HANDYWORKS. AND A MAN SHALL EVER SE*, THAT WHEN AGES GROW TO CIVILITY AND ELEGANCY, MEN COME TO BUILD STATELY, SOONER THAN TO GARDEN FIN ELY : AS IFC.A&PENING WERK THE GREATER PERFECTION. VERULAM. THE ENGLISH GARDEN. BOOK THE FIRST....

...in all wholesome Art, and gardening at its best is a fine art. For ever true is what Bacon says : ' Men come to build stately sooner than to ' garden...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' To borrow illustrations from other arts, the champions of the formal garden would stop short at the...

...in gardening to be the most decisive proof of civilization ; " a man shall ever see," he remarks, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection *." It is, therefore, highly to the credit of Addition, that at a time when the style of gardening...

...in gardening to be the most decisive proof of civilization ; " a man shall ever see," he remarks, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection *." It is, therefore, highly to the credit of Addison, that at a time when the style of gardening was...

...has been cultivated with the greatest success-: ' For when ages advance in civility and politeness, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely :' as if gardening was the greater perfection. In laying out grounds they so excel, that lord Macartney gives them the...

...And these, O heartfelt extasy ! She gives to Honour, Love, and Me. July 11, 176i THE ENGLISH GARDEN A POEM. IN FOUR BOOKS. TO WHICH ARE ADDED A COMMENTARY...if gardening were the greater perfection. VERULAM. PREFACE. As the Four Books, which compose the following Poem, were published originally at very distant...

...refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy works : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to...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...

...argument, and almost in Aristotle's words, with respect to the superiority of gardening to architecture : " A man shall ever see, that when " ages grow to civility...; as " if gardening were the greater perfection." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted by Aristotle, appears, not only from the earlier dramatic...

...argument, and almost in Aristotle's words, with respect to the superiority of gardening to architecture : "A man shall ever see, that when " ages grow to civility...men come to " build stately SOONER than to garden ßnely ; as " if gardening were the greater perfectian." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted...