 | Floriculture - 1858 - 458 pages
...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, " hence a love of gardening, and a taste for gardening, are two distinct things, love, or desire for... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1879 - 672 pages
...says: "A man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility aud elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Any pereon of taste ni i \ li ml keen delight in the beautiful effects of landscape gardening, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...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 roval ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for alf the months in the year; in which, severally,... | |
 | Illinois State Horticultural Society - Gardening - 1883 - 432 pages
...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." There is an inspiration in simply reading a description of his ideal garden, or rather gardens, for... | |
 | Gardening - 1902 - 626 pages
...good time is the main secret of successful gardening," Tin- Garden that I Love, by ALFRED AUSTIN. " I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there...severally, things of beauty may be then in season," Lord BACON'. PRESENTATION TO MR. JOHN WRIGHT.— At the annual meeting of the Worshipful Company of... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build 10 Retiring-room. " Secret outlets. HCin 8 stately sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were...season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter: holly; ivy; bays; juniper; cypress-trees;... | |
 | Play - 1937 - 800 pages
...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." — Francis Bacon. of the McKinley Vocational School and the Board of Education of the City of Buffalo,... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 592 pages
...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.' Long after this great man wrote, an English garden was an inclosure, where all view of the surrounding... | |
 | English periodicals - 1924 - 970 pages
...; 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. THIS familiar, not to say hackneyed, quotation from Bacon of Verulam, may fitly introduce our subject... | |
 | Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - Architecture - 1988 - 286 pages
...And a Man shall ever see, that when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancie, Men come to Build Stately, sooner than to Garden Finely: As if Gardening were the Greater Perfection. His first principle of garden design is that "there ought to be Gardens, for all the Moneths in the... | |
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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... 
