 | 1924 - 1086 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. THIS familiar, not to say hackneyed, quotation from Bacon of Verulam, may fitly introduce... | |
 | 1924 - 970 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. THIS familiar, not to say hackneyed, quotation from Bacon of Verulam, may fitly introduce... | |
 | Indiana Horticultural Society - 1892 - 256 páginas
...greatest refreshment of the spirits of man, without which palaces and buildings are but gross handy-works; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility...to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." It is pre-eminently suited to literary and professional men, whose sedentary life needs... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 874 páginas
...URBANUS SYLVAX. THE TRUE ORDERING OF GARDENS. ' WHEN ages grow to civility and elegancy,' said Bacon, ' men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection.' And then he unwittingly impales himself on the point of his own epigram ; for he proceeds... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden, Louis Kronenberger - 1962 - 456 páginas
...she regards me more as a plaything than I do her? MONTAIGNE When ages grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. BACON The most significant element in the Western garden art is the point-de-vue of the... | |
 | Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - 1988 - 286 páginas
...are but Grosse Handy-works: And a Man shall ever see, that when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancie, Men come to Build Stately, sooner than to Garden Finely: As if Gardening were the Greater Perfection. His first principle of garden design is that "there ought to be Gardens, for all the Moneths... | |
 | John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur - 1897 - 542 páginas
...are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see, that where ages grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." The plants, cuttings, and seeds, both economical and ornamental, from Castleton as well... | |
 | John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur - 1897 - 524 páginas
...are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see, that where ages grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." The plants, cuttings, and seeds, both economical and ornamental, from Castleton as well... | |
 | John C. Shepherd, G. A. Jellicoe - 1993 - 214 páginas
...are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see that ichen ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely , as if gardening were the greater per/eclion." — BACON — Essav on Gardens. 22 ARCHITECTURE OF THE GARDEN CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE Approximate... | |
 | Patrick Collinson, Anthony Fletcher, Peter Roberts - 2006 - 402 páginas
...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 perfection.1 With unsurpassed eloquence Sir Francis Bacon captures the significance of gardening for... | |
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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... 
