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. The Plant-lore & Garden-craft of Shakespeare - Page 197by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - 1878 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1807 - 474 pages
...Bacon, in the following passage, makes the very same comparison. " And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, (when it comes and goes...than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air." Bacon's Essays,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...spring," as the plate affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than...do best perfume the air. Roses damask and red are flowers tenacious of their smells, so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...spring," 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 music) than...do best perfume the air. Roses damask and red are flowers tenacious of their smells, so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...perpetunm," 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 music,) than...is more fit for that delight, than to know what be ' e flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Hoses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their... | |
| 1822 - 600 pages
...breath of flowers is farre sweeter in the aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling ofmusicke) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for...delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants which doe best perfume the aire." I always envy what Cowper calls " the occupations of a retired gentleman... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...breath of flowers is farre sweeter in the aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling of musicke) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for...delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants which . doe best perfume the aire." I always envy what Cowper calls " the occupations of a retired... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1824 - 344 pages
...language of our great contemporary, ' 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,'* you have taken care, I see, to select all those flowers and plants that do best perfume its breezes."... | |
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