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... in gardens , and it is with gardens as a whole , rather than their contents , that this book is busy . Besides , in a garden everyone is his or her own poet . Moreover , are there not verse Anthologies enough and to spare ? Of vii.
... in gardens , and it is with gardens as a whole , rather than their contents , that this book is busy . Besides , in a garden everyone is his or her own poet . Moreover , are there not verse Anthologies enough and to spare ? Of vii.
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... whole length of the exterior wall : four tanks of water , bordered by a grass plot , where geese were kept , and the delicate flower of the lotus was encouraged to grow , served for the irrigation of the grounds ; and small kiosks , or ...
... whole length of the exterior wall : four tanks of water , bordered by a grass plot , where geese were kept , and the delicate flower of the lotus was encouraged to grow , served for the irrigation of the grounds ; and small kiosks , or ...
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... whole plantation . The highest arch , upon which the platform of the garden was laid , was 50 cubits high , and the garden itself was surrounded with battlements and bulwarks . The walls were made very strong , built at no small charge ...
... whole plantation . The highest arch , upon which the platform of the garden was laid , was 50 cubits high , and the garden itself was surrounded with battlements and bulwarks . The walls were made very strong , built at no small charge ...
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... whole is fenced in by a wall covered by box , rising by different ranges to the top . On the outside of the wall lies a meadow that owes as many beauties to nature , as all I have been describing within does to art ; at the end of which ...
... whole is fenced in by a wall covered by box , rising by different ranges to the top . On the outside of the wall lies a meadow that owes as many beauties to nature , as all I have been describing within does to art ; at the end of which ...
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... whole extent at one glance . It is encompassed on every side with plane - trees covered with ivy , so that while their heads flourish with their own foliage , their bodies enjoy a borrowed verdure ; and thus the ivy , twining round the ...
... whole extent at one glance . It is encompassed on every side with plane - trees covered with ivy , so that while their heads flourish with their own foliage , their bodies enjoy a borrowed verdure ; and thus the ivy , twining round the ...
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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...