 God Almighty 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 handyworks...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 5081874Full view - About this book
 | William Mason - Church music - 1811 - 530 pages
...POEM. IN FOUR BOOKS. TO WHICH ARE ADDED A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, BY W. BURGH, ESQ. LL. D. A Garden a the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest...which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,... | |
 | William Mason - Church music - 1811 - 520 pages
...A POEM. IN FOUR BOOKS. TO WHICH ARE ADDED A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, BY W. BURGH, ESQ. LL. D. A Garden is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the ipirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. OF GOD Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures;...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... | |
 | Charles Marshall - Fish ponds - 1813 - 464 pages
...BRJXWOiRTH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. ,CtoD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden, and indeed it u the purest of humari Pleasures : It is the greatest Refreshment to the...Man ; without which, Buildings and Palaces are but grtss handy Works. BAcON'S ESSAYS. THE FIFTH EDITION. MINTED FOR FC A»D I. RIVINGTON i J. WALKER;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ;...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks ; and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...had every thing to beguile the senses and to exhilarate the heart. " A Garden,1' says LORD BACON, " is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest...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... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 590 pages
...impression of the spirit of freedom and independence of its possessor. 'A garden,' says Lord Bacon, 'is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...with some low galleries, to pass from them to the palace itself. \JOD Almighty first planted a Garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...galleries, to pass from them to the palace itself. ©( CSartottf*. fjrOD Almighty first planted a Garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XL VI. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden : and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It...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... | |
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