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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... "
History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles ... - Página 499
por Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen184

1896 - 588 páginas
...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...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature

1805 - 570 páginas
...civilisation than those countries in which that art has been cultivated with the greatest success-: ' For when ages advance in civility and politeness, men...to garden finely :' as if gardening was the greater perfection. In laying out grounds they so excel, that lord Macartney gives them the highest praise...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volumen2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 páginas
...civilization ; " a man shall ever see," he remarks, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection *." It is, therefore, highly to the credit of Addison, that at a time when...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volumen3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 páginas
...civilization ; " a man shall ever see," he remarks, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection *." It is, therefore, highly to the credit of Addition, that at a time...
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The Works of William Mason, M.A. Precentor of York, and Rector of Aston ...

William Mason - 1811 - 524 páginas
...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 perfection. VERULAM. PREFACE. As the Four Books, which compose the following Poem,...
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The Works of William Mason, Volumen1

William Mason - 1811 - 520 páginas
...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 perfection. VKRDLAM. PREFACE. As the Four Books, which compose the following Poem,...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 páginas
...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 perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens...
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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the Translation ...

Aristotle - 1815 - 492 páginas
...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 finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted by Aristotle appears, not...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen1

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 páginas
...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 perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens...
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An excursion to Windsor, in July 1810. Also A sail down the river Medway ...

John Evans - 1817 - 610 páginas
...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 perfection." At FROGMORE HER MAJESTY has held several fetes, to which the public,...
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