 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 pages
...in gardening to be the most decisive proof of civilization ; " a man shall ever see," he remarks, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection *." It is, therefore, highly to the credit of Addison, that at a time when the style of gardening was... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...in gardening to be the most decisive proof of civilization ; " a man shall ever see," he remarks, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection *." It is, therefore, highly to the credit of Addition, that at a time when the style of gardening... | |
 | 1805 - 570 pages
...has been cultivated with the greatest success-: ' For when ages advance in civility and politeness, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely :' as if gardening was the greater perfection. In laying out grounds they so excel, that lord Macartney gives them the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 556 pages
...gardening was unqueftionable. " For the honour of this art," Lord Bacon fays, " a man fhall ever fee, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build rtately, fooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfeaion." WARTON. The tafle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 556 pages
...gardening was unquellionable. " For the honour of this art," Lord Bacon fays, " a man fhall ever fee, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build ftately, fooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfcftion." WARTON. The tafte... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 524 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and...finely : as if gardening were the greater perfection. VERULAM. PREFACE. As the Four Books, which compose the following Poem, were published originally at... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 530 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and...finely : as if gardening were the greater perfection. V£RUHM. PREFACE. As the Four Books, which compose the following Poem, were published originally at... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 526 pages
...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall erer see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy,...finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection. VIRULAM. PREFACE. As the Four Books, which compose the following Poem, were published originally at... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 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...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, Thomas Twining - 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... | |
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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... 
