Gardens Ancient and Modern: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-artAlbert Forbes Sieveking |
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agreeable alleys ancient Androuet du Cerceau appeared arbour arches architecture artificial beautiful beds better birds borders called canal cascades Claude Mollet colour Columella Crispin de Pass Cut-work cypresses delight earth England English Garden Epicurus Evelyn flowers fountains France French fruit fruit-trees grass green grotto ground groves hath hedges herbs hill HISTORICAL EPILOGUE History History of Gardening Horace Walpole Humphry Repton imagination Italy Jardins John JOHN EVELYN kind kitchen garden labour labyrinth laid Landscape Gardening lawns look Lord magnificent marble meadow Nature noble OLIVIER DE SERRES orchard ornaments painted palace Paradise park parterre plantations planted pleasant pleasure poet river rock roses scenes shade shrubs side sort square statues stone stream style sweet taste Temple terrace things translated trees variety verdure Versailles villa vines violets walks walls whole wild WILLIAM wind wood
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Page 234 - 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 xv - 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 xv - 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 61 - 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 311 - 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 311 - 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 312 - 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 203 - 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 63 - ... 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 346 - ... 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.