 | 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...without 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... | |
 | 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
...let them stand at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. OF GOD Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is...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;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ippolito Pindemonte - 1817 - 300 pages
...of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshement to the spirits of man , without which building and palaces are but gross handy-works . And a, man shall ever see that when ages grow to civllity and elegance , men come to building stately , sooner than to garden finely : as gardening... | |
 | England - 1830 - 990 pages
...is the delight of labour. " God Almighty," says one of the wisest men that ever adorned humanity, " first planted a garden, and inde'ed it is the purest of human pleasures." It is, moreover, peculiarly favoured in this, that while it is the pleasantest of all descriptions of labour,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 614 pages
...in language of so much beauty, that we shall trespass on our page with a few brief specimens. ' God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy works: and aman shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. . . XLVII. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it...to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and pulaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy,... | |
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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 handiworks. 
