 | Atticus - Catholic universities and colleges - 1870 - 166 pages
...gross handiworks ; and a man 114 GARDENS. shall ever see that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." At Stonyhurst College, gardens which cannot be excelled in beauty and... | |
 | Anthony Hewitson - 1870 - 162 pages
...palaces are but gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." At Stonyhurst College, gardens which cannot be excelled in beauty and... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1871 - 504 pages
...degree of civilization. " When ages do grow to civility and elegancy," says the great Lord Bacon, " men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." The traditions and historical notices of this art refer to periods of... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...palaces are but gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens... | |
 | Illinois - 1872 - 1108 pages
...and Architecture. "A man shall ever see," said Bacon, "that, when ages grow to civility and elegance, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." The art of the Landscape Gardener, like that of the Artist in the photographic... | |
 | Education - 1913 - 830 pages
...palaces are but gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. — FRANCIS BACON. THE SOWER'S SONG. Now hands to feeed-sheet, boys! We... | |
 | Rose Standish Nichols - Gardens - 1928 - 458 pages
...XI THE BAROQUE PERIOD GARDEN-MAKING, as Bacon pointed out, is apt to lag behind the other arts and "men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely as if gardening were the greatest perfection." Undoubtedly in Italy gardens were brought to their greatest perfection... | |
 | American essays - 1906 - 938 pages
...the old masters have left us is a question; which recalls Bacon again, for, you remember, he said, "Men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Such a type, even were it well copied, could never be our national type;... | |
 | American essays - 1863 - 804 pages
...impulses. Lord Bacon, in his essay " Of Gardens," says, " When ages grow to civility and elegancy, шеи come to build stately sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening wore the greater perfection." A case which seems to confirm this position occurs to us. The site of... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - Education - 1912 - 608 pages
...palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegance, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely. As if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens there ought to be gardens... | |
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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... 
