 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
 | Languages, Modern - 1887 - 994 pages
...breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of nmsick) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to kuow what be the flowers and plants that do but perfume the air. Roses damask ajid red are flowers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...have "ver perpetuum," as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the me few have varied, and that it may receive some distinction...good infantry, it requireth men bred, not in the rod, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...music, than in the hand, therefore nothing in n fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowm 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, and find nothing of their sweetness : yea, though... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...again , and a spring all the year long. 2. 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 ' Ribes (Latin name) for currants. 'Rasp (obsolete) fur raspberry. 'Genniling for jenneting. 'Quo1llin... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 620 pages
...are received by the senses, with intervals. "And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of...than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for delight," &c. (Of Gardens.) Milton had probably the passage of the text in view when he wrote, " Now... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Analogy (Religion) - 1852 - 478 pages
...and conversing with nature. COWPER'S Letters. 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 - 1852 - 682 pages
...soft 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 aire." — LORD BACON'S Essay on Gardens. Note 16, page 500, line 37. O... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...Breath of Flowers is far Sweeter in the Air (where it comes and goes, like the Warbling of Mufick), than in the Hand, therefore nothing is more fit for...than to know what be the Flowers and Plants, that do beft perfume the Air. Rofes Damafk and Red, are faft Flowers of their Smells ; fo that ; you may walk... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Calendar reform - 1852 - 328 pages
...recesses. " The breath of flowers," as Bacon beautifully observes, " is far sweeter in the air, when it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand." Even the rich illustrations which fancy scatters over the page of the orator or the poet, may be crowded... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...may have ver perpetuum, 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... | |
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