 And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.  Bacon: His Writings and His Philosophy - Página 75por George Lillie Craik - 1846Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 páginas
...of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music), than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight,...best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast 19 flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their... | |
 | 1913 - 1244 páginas
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight...flowers and plants that do best perfume the air." To go with the "posies" one can keep the bees to sip their honey and store it up as food for human... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 páginas
...of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight...the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. /&«/. 1 Of similar meaning, "Thy wish was father, Ham-, to that thought." See Shakespeare, page 90.... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - 1903 - 386 páginas
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the ' air, where it comes and goes, than in the hand, there' fore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know ' what be the plants and flowers that do best perfume ' the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of ' their... | |
 | Agnes Mary Frances Robinson - 1904 - 336 páginas
...of its smell, as Lord Bacon noticed (when writing of gardens one may surely quote him twice) : " And you may walk by a whole row of them and find nothing of their sweetness." From the rose-garden starts a long rectangle of three walled potagers in a suite, opening into each... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 páginas
...of flowers is far sweeter 20 in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight...do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast0 flowers of their smells, so 25 that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 páginas
...Flowers is farre Sweeter in the Aire (where it comes and goes like the Warbling of Musick) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the Flowers and Plants that doe best perfume the Aire. Roses Damask and Red are fast Flowers of their Smells, so that you may walke... | |
 | Jennie Day Haines - 1906 - 96 páginas
...Breath of Flowers is far sweeter in the Aire (when it comes and goes like the Warbling of Music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the Flowers and Plants that doe best perfume the Aire. The Garden glows, Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam). And 'gainst its walls the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 270 páginas
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight,...perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers 23 of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 428 páginas
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight,...best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast 2 flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their... | |
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