Sir William Temple Upon the Gardens of Epicurus: With Other XVIIth Century Garden EssaysChatto and Windus, 1908 - 272 páginas |
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Página 81
... vegetable world command ? And the wild giants of the wood receive What law He's pleased to give ? He bids th ' ill - natured crab produce The gentler apple's winy juice ; G The golden fruit , that worthy is Of Galatea's purple THE GARDEN ...
... vegetable world command ? And the wild giants of the wood receive What law He's pleased to give ? He bids th ' ill - natured crab produce The gentler apple's winy juice ; G The golden fruit , that worthy is Of Galatea's purple THE GARDEN ...
Página 89
... expect such descriptions . Wherein England is now so exact , that it yields not to other countries . 1 Dr. Harvey . 2 Bauhin's Theatrum Botanicum . We pretend not to multiply vegetable divisions by quincuncial and 89 The Epistle Dedicatory.
... expect such descriptions . Wherein England is now so exact , that it yields not to other countries . 1 Dr. Harvey . 2 Bauhin's Theatrum Botanicum . We pretend not to multiply vegetable divisions by quincuncial and 89 The Epistle Dedicatory.
Página 90
... vegetable divisions by quincuncial and reticulate plants ; or erect a new phytol- ogy.1 The field of knowledge hath been ... vegetables , some confined their delights unto single plants , and Cato seemed to dote upon cabbage ; while the ...
... vegetable divisions by quincuncial and reticulate plants ; or erect a new phytol- ogy.1 The field of knowledge hath been ... vegetables , some confined their delights unto single plants , and Cato seemed to dote upon cabbage ; while the ...
Página 94
... vegetable creation , and first ornamental scene of nature , —the primitive food of animals , and first story of physic in dietetical conservation . For though Physic may plead high , from that medical act of God , in casting so deep a ...
... vegetable creation , and first ornamental scene of nature , —the primitive food of animals , and first story of physic in dietetical conservation . For though Physic may plead high , from that medical act of God , in casting so deep a ...
Página 97
... vegetables ; all stories do look upon Cyrus as the splendid and regular planter . According whereto Xenophon 2 describeth his gallant plantation at Sardis , thus rendered by Strebæus . " Arbores pari intervallo sitas , rectos ordines ...
... vegetables ; all stories do look upon Cyrus as the splendid and regular planter . According whereto Xenophon 2 describeth his gallant plantation at Sardis , thus rendered by Strebæus . " Arbores pari intervallo sitas , rectos ordines ...
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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.