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Common terms and phrasesÆgyptian Ahasuerus Analogies ancient Angles Animals answer Antiquity arise Aristotle Aurelian Babylon Battle Beards Bellies Birds Blattaria Bodies Butterfly Calicular Leaves Chiasmus Circle Circularly conceive contrived Cross Crown Decussation Delights describeth Description diffuse discern discoursed discover disposed Disposure Divisions doth Draughts Duckweed duction Earth Eggs elegant elegantly Figure Five Five-Leaved Flowers Form Fruits Garden Germination Gomphosis Greece handsome Hastati hath Nature Head Henbane Honey-comb Imitation Intersection Leaf and Root Legs long Square Lozenge maintain Maniples Moth Motion neatest Net-work noble Number obliquely observed omit Order orderly Ordination Orifice Palisadoes Paradise Plantations Plants Position Ptolomy Pulp Pyramids Quadrate Quadrupeds Quincuncial Quincunx regular remarkable Resemblance hereof Retiary Reticulate Reticulum Rhomboidal Rhombus Right-lines rudimental Scripture Seeds seems seminal Sexangular Shoots Side Sockets Solomon sphærical Sprouts Stalk Stomach Texture Theophrastus thereof tion Trees Triarii ture unto Varro Vegetables Ventricle Wall-Nuts Water wherein wrapt Xenophon Popular passagesPage 9 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees... Page 3 - From whence overlooking Babylon, and all the region about it, he found no circumscription to the eye of his ambition ; till over-delighted with the bravery of this Paradise, in his melancholy metamorphosis he found the folly of that delight, and a proper punishment in the contrary habitation — in wild plantations and wanderings of the fields. Page v - That in this garden discourse, we range into extraneous things, and many parts of art and nature, we follow herein the example of old and new plantations, wherein noble spirits contented not themselves with trees, but by the attendance of aviaries, fish-ponds, and all variety of animals they made their gardens the epitome of the earth, and some resemblance of the secular shows of old. Page 2 - ... and but some hours after the earth. Of deeper doubt is its topography and local designation; yet being the primitive garden, and without much controversy seated in the east, it is more than probable the first curiosity, and cultivation of plants, most flourished in those quarters. Page 30 - Among the problems proposed by that true-spirited but eccentric philosopher, Sir Thomas Browne, is one, " Why, among Sea-stars, Nature chiefly delighteth in five points ?" and in his Garden of Cyrus he observes, "By the same number (five) doth Nature divide the circle of the Sea-star, and in that order and number disposeth those elegant semicircles or dental sockets and eggs in the Sea Hedge-hog. Page 20 - ... leaves in the head of the common and prickled artichoke, wherein the black and shining flies do shelter themselves, when they retire from the purple flower about it. The same is also found in the pricks, sockets, and impressions of the seeds, in the pulp or bottom thereof; wherein do elegantly stick the fathers of their mother : to omit the quincuncial specks on the top of the... Page iv - You have been so long out of trite learning, that 'tis hard to finde a subject proper for you; and if you have met with a Sheet upon this, we have missed our intention. In this multiplicity of writing, bye and barren Themes are best fitted for invention; Subjects so often discoursed confine the Imagination, and fix our conceptions unto the notions of fore-writers. Beside, such Discourses allow excursions, and venially admit of collaterall truths, though at some distance from their principals. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarPhototropism: Bending towards EnlightenmentCraig W Whippo, Roger P Hangarter - 2006 - The Plant Cell Online Milton's Heaven and the Model of the English UtopiaAmy Boesky - 1996 - Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 whole world, it also serves to incite Hamlet’s further inquiry: it ...2003 - Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies References from web pagesThe Garden of Cyrus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia §6. "Hydriotaphia; The Garden of Cyrus". X. Antiquaries. Vol. 7 ... Literary Encyclopedia: De Quincunx, or The Garden of Cyrus The Garden of Cyrus: Chapter I The Garden of Cyrus: Information and Much More from Answers.com Thomas Browne's The Garden of Cyrus Of Cyder and Sallets: The Hortulan Saints and The Garden of Cyrus Urne Buriall: And the Garden of Cyrus by Sir Browne Thomas, John ... JSTOR: Early Drafts of the Garden of Cyrus The Garden of Cyrus - Wikisource Bibliographic information
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