 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 542 pages
...prosperity or decline of the most mighty states. It is Lord Bacon who says that ' when ages do grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' According to Sir John Malcolm, the Persians had gardens from the period of their first king Mahabad.... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pages
...prosperity or decline of the most mighty suites. ]| is Lord Bacon who says that ' when ages do prow lo civility and elegancy men come to build stately sooner...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' According to Sir John Malcolm, the Persians had gardens from the period of their first king Mahabad.... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 708 pages
...hisEssay on Gardens. " Whenagesgrowtociviliiy and elegancy," he says in that interesting composition, " men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." In illustration of this assertion of Bacon, (if, indeed, any assertion of that wonderful man required... | |
 | M. A. Burnett - 1850 - 204 pages
...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork; and 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.' Yes, gardens are clearly significant of elegancy. He cannot be a bad man who loves either flowers or... | |
 | Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 684 pages
...thnt which is the most dead and melancholy."— Spectator, No. 477. And the great Lord Hncon says, " In the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for every month in the year." in reality, and a rural scene on canvas, are not precisely one and the same... | |
 | Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 672 pages
...that which is the most dead and melancholy."— Spectator, No. 477. And the great Lord Bacon says, " In the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for every month in the year." in reality, and a rural scene on canvcu, are not precisely one and the same... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...which gave rise to the remark of Lord Bacon, that, " When ages grew to civility and elegance, men came to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." In the account of their public gardens, by Pausanias, we learn, that they were the resort of the philosophers... | |
 | 1842 - 788 pages
...last refinements of civilised life. ' A man shall ever see,' says Lord Bacon, ' that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely.' To attempt, therefore, to disguise wholly its artificial character is as great folly as if men were... | |
 | John Nowell - 1844 - 106 pages
...which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; and 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." Such was the opinion of Lord VERDLAM ; and it is the more worthy of observation as coming from a man... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1844 - 556 pages
...which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks ; and 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." 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... 
