Sir William Temple Upon the Gardens of Epicurus: With Other XVIIth Century Garden EssaysChatto and Windus, 1908 - 272 páginas |
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Página xv
... writes the Treasure Politick saith , That it's one of the great Deficiencies of England , that Hops will not grow , whereas now it is known , that Licorish , Saffron , Cherries , Apples , Pears , Hops , Cabages , of England , are the ...
... writes the Treasure Politick saith , That it's one of the great Deficiencies of England , that Hops will not grow , whereas now it is known , that Licorish , Saffron , Cherries , Apples , Pears , Hops , Cabages , of England , are the ...
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... writes : - I would have showed him ( his son ) the garden - seat , under which Sir William Temple's heart was buried , agree- ably to his Will ; but , the seat was gone , also the wall at the back of it ; and the exquisitely beautiful ...
... writes : - I would have showed him ( his son ) the garden - seat , under which Sir William Temple's heart was buried , agree- ably to his Will ; but , the seat was gone , also the wall at the back of it ; and the exquisitely beautiful ...
Página xxix
... writes- In the production of this sport of fancy , he considers every production of art and nature , in which he could find any decussation or approach to the form of a Quincunx ; and , as a man once resolved upon ideal discoveries ...
... writes- In the production of this sport of fancy , he considers every production of art and nature , in which he could find any decussation or approach to the form of a Quincunx ; and , as a man once resolved upon ideal discoveries ...
Página xxx
... writes on Garlands in his flowing vein and most magnificent manner - one feels he did his best for Evelyn . By whom else but Browne - or perhaps Samuel Johnson at his mightiest - could we see unrolled before our eyes such a pompous ...
... writes on Garlands in his flowing vein and most magnificent manner - one feels he did his best for Evelyn . By whom else but Browne - or perhaps Samuel Johnson at his mightiest - could we see unrolled before our eyes such a pompous ...
Página xxxii
... write to their acquaint- ance . " On one point I venture to differ from most modern critics who look upon " The Garden of Cyrus " as a piece of solemn jesting or deliberate trifling on the part of its author . In my opinion , Browne was ...
... write to their acquaint- ance . " On one point I venture to differ from most modern critics who look upon " The Garden of Cyrus " as a piece of solemn jesting or deliberate trifling on the part of its author . In my opinion , Browne was ...
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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.