 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
 | William Franklin Webster, Alice Woodworth Cooley - English language - 1904 - 246 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 200 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 pages
...besides alleys on both sides. And I like well that four acres of ground 25 be assigned to the green, six to the heath, four and four to either side, and...finely shorn; the other, because it will give you a so fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose... | |
 | Hugh Tempest Sheringham - Fishing - 1905 - 288 pages
...have been here is the essay on gardens. It now lies open on the grass beside me at this passage : " The Green hath two pleasures. The one because nothing...you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose the garden." Bacon had a fine feeling for grass,... | |
 | Hugh Tempest Sheringham - Fishing - 1905 - 284 pages
...have been here is the essay on gardens. It now lies open on the grass beside me at this passage : " The Green hath two pleasures. The one because nothing...you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose the garden." Bacon had a fine feeling for grass,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - English essays - 1907 - 248 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,... | |
 | M. R. Gloag - Gardens - 1906 - 406 pages
...square, encompassed on all the four sides with a stately arched hedge." There must also be "green," " because nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn " ; and fountains, " for they are a great beauty and refreshment " ; also, "you are to frame some of... | |
 | Mrs. Evelyn Cecil - Gardens - 1907 - 522 pages
...hand is not difficult to imagine. The fair alleys, the great hedge, were essentials, and the green, " because nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn." His list of plants which bloom in all the months of the year was compiled of those specially suited... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1908 - 428 pages
...well that four acres of ground be assigned to the green ; six to the heath ; four and four to either 4 side ; and twelve to the main garden. The green hath two pleasures : the iBurnet. The popular name of plants belonging to the genera Sanguisorba and Poterium, of the Rosaceae,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pages
...; Six to the Heath, Foure and Foure to either Side ; 90 And Twelve to the Maine Garden. The Greene hath two pleasures; The one, because nothing is more Pleasant to the Eye then Greene Grasse kept finely shorne"; The other-j because it will give you a faire Alley in the midst,... | |
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