 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.  Bacon's Essays - Page 55by Francis Bacon - 1881Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 524 pages
...thus fondly dwells on the allurements of a garden: — "The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of...the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air; the flower which above all others yields the sweetest smell in the air, is the violet* ; next to that... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...1727, Aix in Provence. Michael Bryan, 1757, Newcastle. The breath of flowers is far sweeter in, the air (where it comes and 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 - 228 pages
...have " ver pcrpetuum," as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes, (like the warbling of...air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness ; yea, though... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 526 pages
...the allurements of a garden : — " The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where itcomes and goes like the warbling of music), than in the hand ; therefore, nothing is more tit for that del;ght, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air; the... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...the mind. How exquisitely beautiful is his remark, that ' the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and 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... | |
 | Alfred John Kempe - England - 1836 - 554 pages
...blossoms of the vegetable kingdom he poetically adds "as the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of...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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