 | Robert Richard Pearce - 1855 - 488 pages
...directions how to have " ver perpetuum" in gardens, and with the ardour of a tme florist, remarks — " And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit... | |
 | George Wilson - 1856 - 146 pages
...Of Gardens," Tie told his readers that " the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air — where it comes and goes like the warbling of music — than in the hand;" comparing, as it were, the free-growing flower, giving forth fragrance, to an uncaged bird like the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...climate of London : but my meaning is perceived, that you may have ver perpetuum™ as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...of London ; but my meaning is perceived, that you may have " ver perpetuum," 6 as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music,) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more... | |
 | 1857 - 830 pages
...know anything daintier than his discourses on housebuilding, gardening, and masks and triumphs : — ' And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air. where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...of London ; but my meaning is perceived, that you may have ver perpetuum,™ as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in 1 Ribes. Currants. 3 Basps. Raspberries.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...climate of London ; but my meaning is perceived, that you may have ver perpetuum, as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 752 pages
...his mind Bacon's sentence of similar beauty, " The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where trencher-man; he hath an excellent stomach. Men. And a good sold 4. Quick. Shakespeare uses this word here, and elsewhere, in the sense of ' lively,' ' vital.' 5. Validity.... | |
 | 1864 - 742 pages
...sweet flowing music as perfume. Possibly Milton had read this passage in Bacon's essay on gardens. " And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand," &c. Comus offers to guide the... | |
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And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music,) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. 
