 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 508 pages
...almost in Aristotle's words, with respect to the superiority of gardening to architecture : " A man shall ever see, that when " ages grow to civility...; as " if gardening were the greater perfection." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted by Aristotle, appears, not only from the earlier dramatic... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 516 pages
...almost in Aristotle's words, with respect to the superiority of gardening to architecture : "A man shall ever see, that when " ages grow to civility...men come to " build stately SOONER than to garden ßnely ; as " if gardening were the greater perfectian." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of. man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks ; and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and...year ; in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things... | |
 | Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1815 - 492 pages
...almost in Aristotle's words, with respect t« the superiority of gardening to architecture : " A man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted by Aristotle appears, not only from the earlier dramatic... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of man, without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works, and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." At FROGMORE HER MAJESTY has held several fetes, to which the public, were admitted. The first was May... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 590 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy works; and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' Long after this great man wrote, an English garden was an inclosure, where all view of the surrounding... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and...year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and...year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...to the spirits of man ; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works : and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and...year : in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works: and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. 1 do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
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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... 
