 I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden, as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the fall. It is naturally apt to fill the mind with calmness and tranquillity, and to lay all...  The Manchester iris - Page 21822Full view - About this book
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1918 - 678 pages
...he pictures the Secretum iter et fallentis semita vita. EI 18. 108. (8. «02) No. 477. It [a garden] is naturally apt to fill the mind with calmness and...tranquillity, and to lay all its turbulent passions at rest. This is a possible allusion to Horace's lines, E. 1.18. 102-103. (4. 76-77) No. 549. I believe most... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - Comparative literature - 1918 - 662 pages
...pictures the Secretum iter et fallentis semita vita. E. 1. 18. 108. (3. 502) No. 477. It [a garden] is naturally apt to fill the mind with calmness and...tranquillity, and to lay all its turbulent passions at rest. This is a possible allusion to Horace's lines, E. 1. 18. 102-103. (4. 76-77) No. 549. I believe most... | |
 | Eleanour Sinclair Rohde - Anthologies - 1925 - 346 pages
...the pleasure which we take in a Garden, as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A Garden was the habitation of our first parents before the...and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation. JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator, 1712. 82 THE GARDENER " Such a gardner as will conscionbly, quietly... | |
 | Walter Alden Dyer - Country life - 1928 - 368 pages
...the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights of human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the...the mind with calmness and tranquillity, and to lay its turbulent passions at rest. It gives us great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Providence,... | |
 | Klaus P. Mortensen - Drama - 1998 - 208 pages
...innocent Delights in Human Life. A Garden was the Habitation of our first Parents before the Fal1. It is naturally apt to fill the Mind with Calmness...Providence, and suggests innumerable Subjects for Meditation.2' Addison's garden is a carefully arranged wilderness - a nature paradise emotionally linking... | |
 | Peter Harrison - Religion - 2001 - 330 pages
...fill the Mind with Calmness and Tranquility, and to lay all its turbulent Passions at rest'; a garden 'gives us a great insight into the Contrivance and...Providence, and suggests innumerable Subjects for Meditation'.163 Stephen Switzer, whose enthusiasm for terraculture prompted him to advance the unlikely... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 278 pages
...the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the...passions at rest. It gives us a great insight into the contrivances and wisdom of Providence, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation. I cannot but... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1961 - 278 pages
...the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the...passions at rest. It gives us a great insight into the contrivances and wisdom of Providence, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation. I cannot but... | |
 | Art - 1911 - 644 pages
...the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the...the mind with calmness and tranquillity, and to lay its turbulent passions at rest. It gives us great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Providence,... | |
 | Elinore E. Harde - 1917 - 104 pages
...mind with calmness and tranquillity, that they lay all its turbulent passions at rest, that they give us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Providence and suggest innumerable subjects for meditation. I cannot but think the very complacency and satisfaction... | |
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