| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 682 pages
...handy-works." The same profound and elegant writer observes, that " a man shall ever sec that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; aa if gardening were the greater perfection." To this perfection, we trust, we arc rapidly arriving... | |
| 1822 - 690 pages
...Having mentioned the name of Bacon, let us not omit to record his assertion, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection:" a remark no less honourable to the noble science of horticulture, than historically accordant with... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...the sister art of architecture, which gave rise to the remark of the former, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately...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 - Poets, English - 1822 - 406 pages
...unquestionable. " For the honour of this art," Lord Bacon says, " a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 424 pages
...unquestionable. " For the honour of this art," Lord Bacon says, " a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...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... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...are but gross handiworks. And a man shall i- v IT MM', that when ages grow to civility and elegancv, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. VERULAM. BOOK I. To thee, divine Simplicity! to thee, Best arbitress of what is good and fair, This... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 634 pages
...unquestionable. " For the honour of this art," Lord Bacon says, " a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...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... | |
| Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 372 pages
...Having mentioned the name of Bacon, let us not omit to record his assertion, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection :" a remark no less honourable to the noble science of horticulture, than historically accordant with... | |
| Joseph Cradock - France - 1826 - 314 pages
...whole theatre of others." I have always been much pleased with Bacon's remark, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...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
...of the sister art of architecture, which gave rise to his lordship's remark, " That when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately...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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