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. The Eclectic Review - Página 153editado por - 1821Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1849 - 602 páginas
...was laid out with great taste, and according to the rules of the noble owner : " Because," says he, bus * plants that do best perfume the air." Beneath the windows of his study were planted musk-roses, sweet-briar,... | |
| 1887 - 994 páginas
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of nmsick) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to kuow what be the flowers and plants that do but perfume the air. Roses damask ajid red are flowers... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 páginas
...spirits of man, without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handy- works." And he adds: — "Because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the...that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air." As late as the year 1754, there was standing, in the gardens... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 622 páginas
...but with the similar mode in which music and fragrance are received by the senses, with intervals. "And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter...than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for delight," &c. (Of Gardens.) Milton had probably the passage of the text in view when he wrote, " Now... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1852 - 480 páginas
...have let slip the opportunity of breathing fresh air, and conversing with nature. COWPER'S Letters. AND because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in...that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1852 - 682 páginas
...soft air, like music wandering by. *' For because the breath of flowers is farre sweeter in the aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music)...that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants which doe best perfume the aire." — LORD BACON'S Essay on Gardens. Note 16, page 500, line... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 páginas
...Thus, if you will, you may have the Golden Age again, and a Spring all the year long. And, becaufe the Breath of Flowers is far Sweeter in the Air (where it comes and goes, like the Warbling of Mufick), than in the Hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the... | |
| Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 328 páginas
...recesses. " The breath of flowers," as Bacon beautifully observes, " is far sweeter in the air, when it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand." Even the rich illustrations which fancy scatters over the page of the orator or the poet, may be crowded... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 páginas
...climate of London. But my meaning is perceived that you may have ver perpetuum, as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in...that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells; so that... | |
| Frederic William Shelton - 1853 - 376 páginas
...lilium convallium, melocotones, wardens, services, medlars, bullaces, &c. " And because," saith he, " the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where...that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that best perfume the air. Roses damask and red are/as£ flowers of their smells, so that you... | |
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