 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.  On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening - Page xxxiby Samuel Felton - 1830 - 221 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...London. But my meaning is perceived that you may have ver perpetuum, 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,... | |
 | Frederic William Shelton - 1853 - 376 pages
...lilium convallium, melocotones, wardens, services, medlars, bullaces, &c. " And because," saith he, " 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. Roses damask and red are/as£ flowers of their smells, so that you may walk by... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...they were pretty words, too :—" And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (when it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than...the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air 5 ." I can repeat them, you see, like a schoolboy \ EUBULDS. There is an old Grecian story, Alethes,... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Sussex (England) - 1853 - 390 pages
...they were pretty words, too : — " And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (when it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than...be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air5." I can repeat them, you see, like a schoolboy ! EUBULUS. There is an old Grecian story, Alethes,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1853 - 666 pages
...soft air, like music wandering' by. 11 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 aire." — LORD BACON'S Essay on Gardens. Note 16, page 500, line 37. O... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be in season. ****«••• 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...London : but my meaning is perceived, that you may have ver perpetuum, 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,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1854 - 366 pages
...breath of flowers is farre sweeter in the aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling of musick) 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." — LOKD BACON'S Essay on Gardens. Note 16, page 56, line 8. was... | |
 | 1866 - 866 pages
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 | Robert Richard Pearce - Admission to the bar - 1855 - 488 pages
...to have " ver perpetuum" in gardens, and with the ardour of a tme florist, remarks — " And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where...flowers and plants that do best perfume the air." Gray's Inn Gardens are still much frequented, and the elms that Bacon planted afford a refreshing shade.... | |
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