 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...Man ftiall ever fee, that when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancy, Men come to Build Stately, fooner than to Garden Finely: As if Gardening were the greater...there ought to be Gardens for all the Months in the Tear, in which, feverally, things of Beauty may be then in feafon. For Decemher and -January, and the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 528 pages
...Man fliall fee, that when Ages advance in Civility and Politenefs, Men come to BUILD STATELY, fooner than to GARDEN FINELY; as if GARDENING were the greater Perfection, I lay it down for a' Rule, That in the Royal Ordering of GARDENS, there ought Of GAR DE N S. . ought... | |
 | 1896 - 588 pages
...all wholesome Art, and gardening at its best is a fine art. For ever true is what Bacon says : ' Men come to build stately sooner than to ' garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' To borrow illustrations from other arts, the champions of the formal garden would stop short at the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...civilization ; " a man shall ever see," he remarks, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection *." It is, therefore, highly to the credit of Addition, that at a time when the style of gardening... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...civilization ; " a man shall ever see," he remarks, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection *." It is, therefore, highly to the credit of Addison, that at a time when the style of gardening was... | |
 | English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...been cultivated with the greatest success-: ' For when ages advance in civility and politeness, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely :' as if gardening was the greater perfection. In laying out grounds they so excel, that lord Macartney gives them the... | |
 | William Mason - Church music - 1811 - 530 pages
...are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely : as if gardening were the greater perfection. V£RUHM. PREFACE. As the Four Books, which compose the following Poem, were published originally at... | |
 | William Mason - Gardens - 1811 - 524 pages
...are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely : as if gardening were the greater perfection. VERULAM. PREFACE. As the Four Books, which compose the following Poem, were published originally at... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...but gross handy works : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely;...severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter;... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 508 pages
...gardening to architecture : " A man shall ever see, that when " ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to " build stately SOONER than to garden finely...; as " if gardening were the greater perfection." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted by Aristotle, appears, not only from the earlier dramatic... | |
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GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross... 
