 The green hath two pleasures ; the one, because nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn ; the other, because it will give you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose...  Bacon's Essays - Page 56by Francis Bacon - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1908 - 856 pages
...for the cultivation of trees, plants, and, above all, turf. "Nothing," said the great Lord Verulam, "is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn." He had his ideas on that and other horticultural matters carried out in the grave gardens of Gray's... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 pages
...midst; besides alleys on both sides. And I like well that four acres of ground be assigned to the green; six to the heath; four and four to either side; and...you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose the garden. But because the alley will be long,... | |
 | Alice Woodworth Cooley, William Franklin Webster - English language - 1909 - 424 pages
...if the woods continue so swiftly to perish, it may become, like Palestine, a land of desolation. 14. Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn. 15. Still the daylight kept flooding insensibly out of the east, which was soon to grow incandescent... | |
 | Robert Shackleton, Elizabeth Shackleton - Architecture, Domestic - 1910 - 414 pages
...growing things out-of-doors. And he sets down the very wise dictum — he being a very wise man — that "nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn." Well, all England is proud of her shorn green grass, and her damp climate is a great aid toward growth... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley - California - 1918 - 680 pages
...besides alleys on both sides;" and you "like well that four acres of ground be assigned to the green, six to the heath, four and four to either side, and...you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to inclose the garden. But because the alley will be long,... | |
 | Hildegarde Hawthorne - Gardens - 1911 - 318 pages
...going forth, and the main garden in the midst, besides alleys on both sides." Nothing, he tells us, is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn. And as for the heath, he would wish that "framed, as much as may be, to a natural wildness. Trees,... | |
 | Country life - 1912 - 322 pages
...besides alleys on both sides; and I like well, that four acres of ground be assigned to the green, six to the heath, four and four to either side, and...you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose the garden ; but because the alley will be long,... | |
 | Alfred H. Hyatt - Gardens - 1913 - 166 pages
...besides alleys, on both sides. And I like well, that four acres of ground be assigned to the green ; six to the heath; four and four to either side; and twelve to the main garden. The greenhath two pleasures; the one, because nothing is m ore pleasant to the eye than green grass shade... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1917 - 922 pages
...midst, besides Alleys on both side. And I like well, that four Acres of Ground be assigned to the Green, six to the Heath, four and four to either Side, and...you a fair Alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a Stately Hedge, which is to enclose the Garden. But because the Alley will be long,... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1915 - 518 pages
...besides alleys on both sides. And I like well that four acres of ground be assigned to the green ; six to the heath ; four and four to either side ;...you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose the garden. But because the alley will be long,... | |
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