Sir William Temple Upon the Gardens of Epicurus: With Other XVIIth Century Garden EssaysChatto and Windus, 1908 - 272 páginas |
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... but Evelyn's finally resulted in the establishment of that Royal Society - the god- parent of all later Royal Institutions , of which Lord Brouncker was the first President , Evelyn and Boyle original xviii INTRODUCTION.
... but Evelyn's finally resulted in the establishment of that Royal Society - the god- parent of all later Royal Institutions , of which Lord Brouncker was the first President , Evelyn and Boyle original xviii INTRODUCTION.
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... original Fellows , and Sprat , Bishop of Rochester ( Cowley's Biographer ) , the first Historian . Had the Royal Society interpreted Science more liberally and done its duty towards Letters as Evelyn desired and planned , the British ...
... original Fellows , and Sprat , Bishop of Rochester ( Cowley's Biographer ) , the first Historian . Had the Royal Society interpreted Science more liberally and done its duty towards Letters as Evelyn desired and planned , the British ...
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... original model for the fine statue of Browne by Mr. A. H. Pegram , A.R.A. , which , cast in bronze , presides , urn in hand , over his own City of Norwich , a place still , as in Evelyn's day , " much addicted to the flowery part ...
... original model for the fine statue of Browne by Mr. A. H. Pegram , A.R.A. , which , cast in bronze , presides , urn in hand , over his own City of Norwich , a place still , as in Evelyn's day , " much addicted to the flowery part ...
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... the precept of taking no care for to- morrow , though never minded as impracticable in the world , seems but to reduce mankind to their natural and original condition of life . However , by these THE GARDENS OF EPICURUS 5.
... the precept of taking no care for to- morrow , though never minded as impracticable in the world , seems but to reduce mankind to their natural and original condition of life . However , by these THE GARDENS OF EPICURUS 5.
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With Other XVIIth Century Garden Essays William Temple Albert Forbes Sieveking. and original condition of life . However , by these ways and degrees , the endless increase of riches seems to be grown the perpetual and general amusement ...
With Other XVIIth Century Garden Essays William Temple Albert Forbes Sieveking. and original condition of life . However , by these ways and degrees , the endless increase of riches seems to be grown the perpetual and general amusement ...
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Abraham Cowley agreeable unto Alcinous ancients Andrew Marvell antiquity apples aviaries Babylon beauty better botanical Browne's Chap Citty climate common Court Cowley Cowley's cypresse Cyrus decussation delicious delight Dioscorides discourse divers earth elegant England Epicureans Epicurus especialy esteemed Evelyn excellent expression figure flowers fountaines fruits Garden of Cyrus garlands grafted grapes Greek green grotto ground groves grow handsome hath herbs Hispania honour Hortis Hortulan inhuma insition John Evelyn Judæa kind King leaves lilies lives Lord Brouncker magnificent marble mentioned nature neere noble observed olive palace Paradise Park parterre peaches pears plantations plants pleasure Pliny princes quincuncial Quincunx rare rhombus rose Scripture seeds seems shade Sir Thomas Browne soil sorts stalks statues stone sweet sycamore taste Temple Theophrastus thereof things thought translation trees vegetables villa vines walkes walls wherein wild word Wotton zizania
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Página xxxix - Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Página 119 - And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Página 68 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Página 143 - The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Página 164 - What wondrous life is this I lead ! Ripe apples drop about my head ; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Página 165 - Here at the fountain's sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root, Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide : There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets and claps its silver wings, And, till prepared for longer flight, Waves in its plumes the various light.
Página 129 - The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Página 165 - Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; — The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas, Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Página 112 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Página 78 - Where does the wisdom and the power divine In a more bright and sweet reflection shine ? Where do we finer strokes and colours see Of the Creator's real poetry, Than when we with attention look Upon the third day's volume of the book i If we could open and intend our eye, We all, like Moses, should espy Ev'n in a bush the radiant Deity.