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... Hill ( Dydymus Mountaine ) — Maschal - Lawson - Laneham - Wotton- Bishop Hall - Burton - Taylor ( the Water Poet ) -Comenius - Harrison -George Herbert - Gassendi - Howell - Sir W. Waller 62-93 CHAPTER V THE FORMAL GARDEN IN THE ...
... Hill ( Dydymus Mountaine ) — Maschal - Lawson - Laneham - Wotton- Bishop Hall - Burton - Taylor ( the Water Poet ) -Comenius - Harrison -George Herbert - Gassendi - Howell - Sir W. Waller 62-93 CHAPTER V THE FORMAL GARDEN IN THE ...
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... hills : the weary bird seeks its nest again . Shadows vanish , but still I linger round my lonely pine . Home once ... hill and sing my song , or weave my verse beside the limpid brook . Thus will I work out my allotted span , content ...
... hills : the weary bird seeks its nest again . Shadows vanish , but still I linger round my lonely pine . Home once ... hill and sing my song , or weave my verse beside the limpid brook . Thus will I work out my allotted span , content ...
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... hills and valleys , gorges , brooks , and lakes covered with aquatic plants . Symmetry is wearying , and ennui and disgust will soon be excited in a garden where every part betrays constraint and art . - Quoted by A. von Humboldt ...
... hills and valleys , gorges , brooks , and lakes covered with aquatic plants . Symmetry is wearying , and ennui and disgust will soon be excited in a garden where every part betrays constraint and art . - Quoted by A. von Humboldt ...
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... hills , or in the garden sacred to Apollo . Here I would most willingly pass my days , were I not too near Avignon , and too far from Italy . For why should I conceal this weakness of my soul ? I love Italy , and I hate Avignon . The ...
... hills , or in the garden sacred to Apollo . Here I would most willingly pass my days , were I not too near Avignon , and too far from Italy . For why should I conceal this weakness of my soul ? I love Italy , and I hate Avignon . The ...
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... hill , will spring and sprout up . So fareth it with Bookes of the very best quality ; let the Author bee never so indulgent , and the Printer vigilant yet both may misse their ayme , by the escape of Errors and Mistakes , either in ...
... hill , will spring and sprout up . So fareth it with Bookes of the very best quality ; let the Author bee never so indulgent , and the Printer vigilant yet both may misse their ayme , by the escape of Errors and Mistakes , either in ...
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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...