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... hedges I am only too conscious , marvelling how I can have overlooked such obvious and striking claims . Where are the Garland and Plant lore of Athenĉus and Theophrastus , and the Garden ' Points ' of old Thomas Tusser ? Where are ...
... hedges I am only too conscious , marvelling how I can have overlooked such obvious and striking claims . Where are the Garland and Plant lore of Athenĉus and Theophrastus , and the Garden ' Points ' of old Thomas Tusser ? Where are ...
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... hedge runs round on either side . 962-927 ) . And there grow tall trees blossoming , pear - trees and pomegranates , and apple - trees with bright fruit , and sweet figs , and olives in their bloom . The fruit of these trees never ...
... hedge runs round on either side . 962-927 ) . And there grow tall trees blossoming , pear - trees and pomegranates , and apple - trees with bright fruit , and sweet figs , and olives in their bloom . The fruit of these trees never ...
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... hedge - birds , and the turtle - dove moaned ; the bees flew round and round the fountains , murmuring softly ; the scent of late summer and of the fall of the year was everywhere ; the pears fell from the trees at our feet , and apples ...
... hedge - birds , and the turtle - dove moaned ; the bees flew round and round the fountains , murmuring softly ; the scent of late summer and of the fall of the year was everywhere ; the pears fell from the trees at our feet , and apples ...
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... hedge , from whence you descend by an easy slope , adorned with the representation of divers animals in box , answering alter- nately to each other , into a lawn overspread with the soft - I had almost said the liquid - Acanthus : 2 ...
... hedge , from whence you descend by an easy slope , adorned with the representation of divers animals in box , answering alter- nately to each other , into a lawn overspread with the soft - I had almost said the liquid - Acanthus : 2 ...
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... hedges . In one place you have a little meadow , in another the box is cut into a thousand different forms : 2 sometimes into letters expressing the name of the master ; sometimes that of the artificer ; whilst here and there little ...
... hedges . In one place you have a little meadow , in another the box is cut into a thousand different forms : 2 sometimes into letters expressing the name of the master ; sometimes that of the artificer ; whilst here and there little ...
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Page 230 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Page 3 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron ; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense ; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices : A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Page 67 - 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...
Page 305 - Of a steep wilderness whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild. Access denied; and overhead up - grew Insuperable highth of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 340 - ... college situated in a purer air ; so that his house was a university in a less volume ; whither they came not so much for repose as study ; and to examine and refine those grosser propositions, which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
Page 306 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose : Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant...
Page 199 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 69 - ... or desert, in the going forth, and the main garden in the midst, besides alleys on both sides ; and, I like well, that four acres of ground be assigned to the green, six to the heath, four and four to either side, and twelve to the main garden.
Page 305 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 100 - I NEVER had any other desire so strong and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniencies joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study of nature...