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... middle with box cut in numberless different figures , together with a plantation of shrubs , prevented by the shears from shooting up too high ; the whole is fenced in by a wall covered by box , rising by different ranges to the top ...
... middle with box cut in numberless different figures , together with a plantation of shrubs , prevented by the shears from shooting up too high ; the whole is fenced in by a wall covered by box , rising by different ranges to the top ...
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... middle , by which means the eye , upon your first entrance , takes in its 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 ...
... middle , by which means the eye , upon your first entrance , takes in its 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 ...
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... Middle Ages , and the ' Speculum ' of Vincent de Beauvais borrows largely from it . ITH orchard , and with gardeyne , or with mede , Se that thyne hous with hem be umviroune ; The side in longe upon the south thou sprede , The cornel ...
... Middle Ages , and the ' Speculum ' of Vincent de Beauvais borrows largely from it . ITH orchard , and with gardeyne , or with mede , Se that thyne hous with hem be umviroune ; The side in longe upon the south thou sprede , The cornel ...
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... middle of the garden and cross- way there will be an amphitheatre such as I shall presently describe to you . At each of the four corners of the said garden there will be an arbour , making eight arbours in all and one amphitheatre ...
... middle of the garden and cross- way there will be an amphitheatre such as I shall presently describe to you . At each of the four corners of the said garden there will be an arbour , making eight arbours in all and one amphitheatre ...
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... middle of a lake , with a square margin , and round this are little alleys for walking , to enter which you must pass a small swing - gate . Near to this is a small garden , and therein many pedestals , on which are placed whole figures ...
... middle of a lake , with a square margin , and round this are little alleys for walking , to enter which you must pass a small swing - gate . Near to this is a small garden , and therein many pedestals , on which are placed whole figures ...
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agreeable alleys ancient Androuet du Cerceau appeared arbours arched artificial beautiful beds Beloeil better birds Borders cabinet called canal cascades Claude Mollet colour Columella Crispin de Pass Cut-work cypresses delight earth elegant England English garden Epicurus Evelyn flowers fountains fruit fruit-trees grass green grotto ground groves hath hedges herbs hill HISTORICAL EPILOGUE History of Gardens Horace Walpole Humphry Repton imagination Italy Jardins JOHN EVELYN kind kitchen garden labyrinth Landscape Gardening lawns look Lord magnificent marble meadow nature noble OLIVIER DE SERRES orchard ornaments painted palace Paradise park parterre plantations plants pleasant pleasure poet regular river rock roses scenes seats shade shrubs side sort spot square statues stone stream style sweet taste Temple terrace thickets things translated trees turf variety verdure Versailles villa vines violets walks walls whole wild WILLIAM wind wood
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Page 236 - 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 288 - There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate. The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;' The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers, 'I wait.
Page 3 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
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 313 - 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 313 - 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 237 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there : Two paradises 'twere in one, To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new; Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run, And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we ! How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers...
Page 205 - 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.