...damascene, To yield him fruit, untouch'd till Autumn came, And the plane-tree to minister its shade. " GOD Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it...of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall...

...phenomena of the growth of trees. " God Almighty," says he, in his quaint but emphatic language, " first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest...of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handywork." The garden at...

...therefore, am obliged to give it from memory. " God Almighty first planted a garden," says Francis Bacon ; " and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks." One can almost...

...a house in a hole or on a pinnacle. " God Almighty first planted a garden," says Lord Bacon, " and it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks ; and a man shall...

...the suiest evidence of a refined and intellectual community. ' ' God Almighty,' says Lord Bacon, ' first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest...of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works; and a man shall...

...affords the surest evidence of a refined and intellectual community. ' God Almighty,' says Lord Bacon, ' first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreahment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works ;...

...galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. And here is the Forty-sixth, " Of Gardens," in full :— God Almighty first planted a, garden, and indeed it...of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross bandy-works. And a man shall...

...Jakobs I. gethan hat: „God Almighty — so beginnt Baco von Verulam seinen Essay „Of Gardens" — first planted a garden; and indeed it is the purest...of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works. And a man shall...

...planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works. And a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner...

...from its pecuniary * Lord Bacon calls it " the purest of human pleasures, the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks." t Of those among the ancients who may be considered as authorities, Cicero is perhaps...