ON THE GARDENS EPICURUS, WITH HER XVIITH CENTURY DEN ESSAYS: INTROTION BY ALFERT BES SIEVEKING, F.S.A. TTO AND WINDUS, PUBI ISHERS LONDON, 1908 UPON THE GARDENS OF EPICURUS, WITH OTHER XVIITH CENTURY GARDEN ESSAYS: INTRODUCTION BY ALBERT FORBES SIEVEKING, F.S.A. THE USE OF GARDENS AS IT HAS BEEN THE INCLINATION OF KINGS AND THE CHOICE OF PHILOSOPHERS, SO IT HAS BEEN THE COMMON FAVOURITE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MEN; A PLEASURE OF THE GREATEST AND THE CARE OF THE MEANEST; AND INDEED AN EMPLOYMENT AND A POSSESSION FOR WHICH NO MAN IS TOO HIGH NOR TOO LOW.-SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE. IN BOOKS AND GARDENS THOU HAST PLAC'D ARIGHT THY NOBLE, INNOCENT DELIGHT. I NEVER HAD ANY OTHER DESIRE SO STRONG AND SO LIKE TO COVETOUSNESS, AS THAT ONE WHICH I HAVE HAD ALWAYS, THAT I MIGHT BE MASTER AT LAST OF A SMALL HOUSE AND LARGE GARDEN. -ABRAHAM COWLEY. IN GARDEN DELIGHTS IT IS NOT EASY TO HOLD A MEDIOCRITY; THAT INSINUATING PLEASURE IS SELDOM WITHOUT SOME EXTREMITY. -SIR THOMAS BROWNE. WHEN WE HAVE RUN OUR PASSIONS' HEAT, ANDREW MARVELL. OUR DRIFT IS A NOBLE, PRINCELY AND UNIVERSAL ELYSIUM CAPABLE OF ALL THE AMENITIES THERE CAN NATURALLY BE INTRODUCED INTO GARDENS. OF PLEASURE, YET SO AS TO BECOME USEFUL AND SIGNIFICANT TO THE LEAST PRETENCES AND FACULTIES.JOHN EVELYN, |