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... sort . Why is thyme in Attica so bitter , whilst all the other fruits are so sweet ? Is it not because the soil of Attica is light and dry , so that plants do not find in it much moisture ? . . . Why do myrtles rubbed between the ...
... sort . Why is thyme in Attica so bitter , whilst all the other fruits are so sweet ? Is it not because the soil of Attica is light and dry , so that plants do not find in it much moisture ? . . . Why do myrtles rubbed between the ...
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... sort of terrace , embellished with various figures and bounded with a box - 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 ...
... sort of terrace , embellished with various figures and bounded with a box - 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 ...
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... sort of dishes being placed round the margin , while the smaller ones swim about in the form of little vessels and water - fowl . Corre- sponding to this , is a fountain which is incessantly emptying and filling ; for the water , which ...
... sort of dishes being placed round the margin , while the smaller ones swim about in the form of little vessels and water - fowl . Corre- sponding to this , is a fountain which is incessantly emptying and filling ; for the water , which ...
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... sort of trees ; and , indeed , I am not at all surprised at it , for they are very old ones , and were much more in vogue amongst our ancestors than they are at present . Having then told him the names of them , and that they were ...
... sort of trees ; and , indeed , I am not at all surprised at it , for they are very old ones , and were much more in vogue amongst our ancestors than they are at present . Having then told him the names of them , and that they were ...
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... Flowers in the very Chequering of the Pavement . Here's a Wood now in Fresco ; there's a strange Variety of Matter in't ; so many Trees , and but one of a sort ; and all exprest to the SIR Life and so for the Birds too , especially.
... Flowers in the very Chequering of the Pavement . Here's a Wood now in Fresco ; there's a strange Variety of Matter in't ; so many Trees , and but one of a sort ; and all exprest to the SIR Life and so for the Birds too , especially.
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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.