...OF HUMAN PLEASURES, IT IS THE GREATEST 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 AND ELEGANCY, MEN COME TO BUILD STATELY, SOONER THAN TO GARDEN FINELY I AS IF GARDENING WERE THE GREATER...

...landfcape " painting as a reality to a reprefenta" tion." WHEATLEY. MAN mail ever fee (fays Lord Bacon) that when ages grow " to civility and elegance, men come to " build (lately, fooner than to garden " finely; as if gardening were the greater <l perfeftion." This obfervation...

...fr6m nature as Chinefe reprefentations are 'from Italian or Englifh landfcapes. Lord Bacon fays, * that when ages grow to civility and elegance, men come to build flately, fooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection ; * * O 2 alluding...

...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without 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, sooner than to garden finely : as if gardening were the greater...

...greatest refreshment to the ipirits of man, without 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, sooner than to garden finely : as if gardening were the greater...

...greatest refieshment to the spirits of man, without which, even palaces are but gross handy works ; and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegance, they lose the chaste fruition of the simple delights that hide themselves in the country^ and betake...

...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 and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater...

...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 and elegancy, men come to " build stately SOONER than to garden ßnely ; as " if gardening were the greater...

...of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of. man ; without 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, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater...

...venne perfezionata di * A garden is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshement to the spirits of man , without which building and.... And a, man shall ever see that when ages grow to civllity and elegance , men come to building stately , sooner than to garden finely : as gardening...