And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment - Page 3301832Full view - About this book
| Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1828 - 228 pages
...soft air, like music wandering by. "For because the breath of flowers is farre sweeter in the aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the band, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants which... | |
| Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...through repeated impressions ; as did his ' Gentleman's and Gardener's • Lord Bacon says, " Because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of musick) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1831 - 510 pages
...soft air, like music wandering by. " For because the breath of flowers is farrc sweeter in the aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music)...delight than to know what be the flowers and plants which doe best perfume the aire." — Lord Bacon's Essay on Gardens. Note 16, page 17, col. 2. I saw... | |
| Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...Hugh Blair, 1718, Edinburgh. Michael Adanson, 1727, Aix in Provence. Michael Bryan, 1757, Newcastle. The breath of flowers is far sweeter in, the air (where...goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand. Bacon. Dratfis. ©bttS of the Latin Church. St. Hegesippus (a Historian of the Church), died, 180.... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 230 pages
...but my meaning is perceived, that you may have " ver pcrpetuum," as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where...the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them,... | |
| Mrs. Hemans, Reginald Heber - 1833 - 526 pages
...«oft air, like music wandering by. " For because the breath of flowers is farre sweeter in the aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music)...delight than to know what be the flowers and plants which doe best perfume the aiie." — Lord Bacon' г Essay on Gardens. Note 16, page 17, col. 2. I... | |
| Horticulture - 1834 - 550 pages
...ver perpetuum," as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is fur sweeter in the open air, (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music ;) than in the hand, therefore, nothing more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.... | |
| Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...but afforded the greatest refreshment to the mind. How exquisitely beautiful is his remark, that ' the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where...goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand!'* Besides improving the garden of Gray's Inn, he also ' erected,' says Dr. Rawley, ' that elegant pile... | |
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - American literature - 1835 - 498 pages
...breath of flowers is farre sweeter in the aire, (where it comes and goes like the warbling of musicke) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for...delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants, which doe best perfume the aire.'* The flowers greet me, as I stoop to water them, like familiar beings,... | |
| Alfred John Kempe - England - 1836 - 558 pages
...handyworks." Of the bright and many coloured blossoms of the vegetable kingdom he poetically adds "as the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where...delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that best perfume the air." Umbrageous avenues, grassy mounds, lakelets agitated by falling waters, aviaries,... | |
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