 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,...  The Garden of Cyrus.. - Page vby Sir Thomas Browne - 1736 - 40 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1835 - 526 pages
...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. That we conjoin these parts of different subjects, or... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 584 pages
...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. That we conjoin these parts of different subjects, or... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 pages
...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. That we conjoin these parts of different subjects, or... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1861 - 348 pages
...noble spirits who " 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." " The delightful world comes after death, and Paradise... | |
 | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell, John Frederick Stanford - English language - 1891 - 868 pages
...stay : R. FANSHAWK, Progr. of Learn.) 231, p. 262. 1608 But by the attendance of Aviaries, Fish-Ponds, and all variety of Animals, they made their gardens the Epitome of the earth : SIR TH. BROWN. Hydriotaph., Ep. Ded. 1665 Some Boobies pearcht upon the Yard- Arm of our ship, and... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Gardening - 1896 - 252 pages
...contented Dedicatory. not t h emse i ves w | tn trees, but by the attendance of aviaries, fish-ponds, and all variety of animals, they made their gardens the epitome of the earihj and some resemblance of the secular shows of old. [9] That we conjoin these parts of different... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 472 pages
...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. . . Since the verdant state of things is the symbol of... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 508 pages
...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. . . Since the verdant state of things is the symbol of... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 488 pages
...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. . . Since the verdant state of things is the symbol of... | |
 | Eden Phillpotts - Floriculture - 1906 - 298 pages
..." noble spirits contented not themselves with trees, but by the attendance of aviaries, fishponds, and all variety of animals ; they made their gardens the epitome of the earth, and some resemblance of the secular shows of old." One cannot cram the epitome of the earth into an acre,... | |
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