 | 1880 - 494 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." Many of our common flowers and even fruit-trees were first introduced in the monastic ages, the good... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 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... | |
 | Calamus Kurrens (pseud.) - 1847 - 94 pages
...and 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...garden finely ; as if gardening were the " greater perfection."—LORD BACON. " Mira qusedam in colendis floribus suavitas, et delectatio."—CICERO.... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Great Britain - 1847 - 426 pages
...man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, soon then to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it that in the Royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 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." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings, and on Gardens, with many pleasing... | |
 | Agriculture - 1848 - 400 pages
...ROADS.— Lord Bacon regarded successful gardening as the last touch of civilization— " when nations grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely" — but we slightly differ from him — good roads, it strikes us, are about the ultimatum. The rich,... | |
 | James Fergusson - Aesthetics - 1849 - 584 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." Which is perhaps true, as far as it goes; but gardens want that durability which gives to buildings... | |
 | James Richardson Logan - 1849 - 914 pages
...which building and palaces are bat grw» handy works : 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." So wrote Francis Lord Bacon near 300 years ago, and this pleasure still exists in the human heart as... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...palace* are but gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility anti elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfectioE. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1887 - 994 pages
...which buildings and palaces 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: äs if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there... | |
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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... 
