Sir William Temple Upon the Gardens of Epicurus: With Other XVIIth Century Garden EssaysChatto and Windus, 1908 - 272 páginas |
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... BROWNE . WHEN WE H WE HAVE RUN OUR PASSIONS ' HEAT , LOVE HITHER MAKES HIS BEST RETREAT . THE GODS , WHO MORTAL BEAUTY CHASE , STILL IN A TREE DID END THEIR RACE . ANDREW MARVELL . OUR DRIFT IS A NOBLE , PRINCELY AND UNIVERSAL ELYSIUM ...
... BROWNE . WHEN WE H WE HAVE RUN OUR PASSIONS ' HEAT , LOVE HITHER MAKES HIS BEST RETREAT . THE GODS , WHO MORTAL BEAUTY CHASE , STILL IN A TREE DID END THEIR RACE . ANDREW MARVELL . OUR DRIFT IS A NOBLE , PRINCELY AND UNIVERSAL ELYSIUM ...
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... Browne , Andrew Marvell and John Evelyn - may be said in their lives to cover the whole of the Seventeenth Century ( the eldest being born in 1605 , the last dying in 1706 ) ; and in their writings to represent not only some of the best ...
... Browne , Andrew Marvell and John Evelyn - may be said in their lives to cover the whole of the Seventeenth Century ( the eldest being born in 1605 , the last dying in 1706 ) ; and in their writings to represent not only some of the best ...
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... Browne , with perhaps even greater fidelity . One has but to com- pare Temple's steady current , deserving Clarendon's favourite epithet " flowing , " with the comparatively uneven and rugged periods of John Evelyn , or even Clarendon ...
... Browne , with perhaps even greater fidelity . One has but to com- pare Temple's steady current , deserving Clarendon's favourite epithet " flowing , " with the comparatively uneven and rugged periods of John Evelyn , or even Clarendon ...
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... Browne is as diffuse , desultory and centrifugal a writer as Montaigne , and as fond of marrowy classical quotations as old Burton ; but he is more complicated , since he makes appeal and reference to the sciences of the past and then ...
... Browne is as diffuse , desultory and centrifugal a writer as Montaigne , and as fond of marrowy classical quotations as old Burton ; but he is more complicated , since he makes appeal and reference to the sciences of the past and then ...
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... Browne seems to require the magnificence of large quarto page and accessories to present him in his habit as he ... Browne's own grandiose definition : - " That is the Rows and Orders so handsomely disposed , or Five Trees so set ...
... Browne seems to require the magnificence of large quarto page and accessories to present him in his habit as he ... Browne's own grandiose definition : - " That is the Rows and Orders so handsomely disposed , or Five Trees so set ...
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Abraham Cowley agreeable unto ancients ANDREW MARVELL antiquity Antwerp Athenæus aviaries balsam beauty Browne's cedar Chap Citty climate Court Cowley cypresse delicious delight Dioscorides divers elegant England Epicurus especialy esteemed Evelyn excellent expression famous figure flowers fountaines fruit furnish'd galbanum garden Garden of Cyrus garlands goodly grafted grapes Greek green grotto ground groves grow handsome hath herbs Hispania Horti Hortulan hyssop insition John Evelyn Judæa juniper kind King leaves lilies Lord Lord Brouncker magnificent marble meadows mentioned myrtle nature neere noble observed olive Orangeries Palace Paradise park parterre paynted peaches plantations plants pleasure Pliny proper quincuncial Quincunx rare render rhombus scions Scripture seeds seems shade Sir Thomas Sir Thomas Browne soil sorts stalk statues Stirpium stone sweet sycamore Temple terrace Theophrastus thereof translation trees vegetables villa vine Volary walkes walls wherein wild wine word Wotton zizania
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Página 121 - I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together...
Página 134 - For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree ; how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree...
Página 166 - 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 167 - 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 - I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valley...
Página xli - Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Página 72 - Both pleasures more refin'd and sweet ; The fairest garden in her looks, And in her mind the wisest books. Oh, who would change these soft, yet solid joys, For empty shows and senseless noise ; And all which rank ambition breeds, Which seem such beauteous flowers, and are such poisonous weeds...
Página 167 - While man there walk'd without a mate: After a place so pure and sweet, What other help could yet be meet! But 'twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one, To live in Paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new! Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, th...
Página 167 - 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 - Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep ; wherein the dulness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours ; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose.