 Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a morning's dew.  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 483by Francis Bacon - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Agnes Mary Frances Robinson - France - 1904 - 336 pages
...of its smell, as Lord Bacon noticed (when writing of gardens one may surely quote him twice) : " And you may walk by a whole row of them and find nothing of their sweetness." From the rose-garden starts a long rectangle of three walled potagers in a suite, opening into each... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 200 pages
...delight, than to know, what be the flowers, and plants, that do best perfume the air. Roses damask and red are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may...no smell, as they grow. Rosemary little ; nor sweet marjoram. That, which above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air, is the violet ; specially... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 pages
...plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast0 flowers of their smells, so 25 that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find...no smell as they grow; rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram. That which, above all others, yields the sweetest smell in which comes twice a year, about... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford - English language - 1908 - 496 pages
...muck of earth. II. D. THOREAU : Summer. plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may...no smell as they grow ; rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram. That which above all others yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet, especially... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Essays - 1908 - 270 pages
...be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers 23 of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row...no smell as they grow. Rosemary little; nor sweet marjoram. That which above all others yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet, specially... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1908 - 428 pages
...know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast 2 flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by...row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness; yea3 though it be in a morning's dew. Bays4 likewise yield no smell as they grow. Rosemary little ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 pages
...delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers" of their smells; so that you may...no smell as they grow. Rosemary little; nor sweet marjoram. That which above all others yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet, specially... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Education - 1909 - 374 pages
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers1* of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row...no smell as they grow. Rosemary little; nor sweet marjoram. That which above all others yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet, specially... | |
 | Katharine Tynan, Frances Maitland - Flower language - 1909 - 348 pages
...and plants that do best perfume the air. " Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smelles, so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find...no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram. " That which above all yields the sweetest smell in the air is the Violet, especially the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 348 pages
...what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers12 of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row...Bays likewise yield no smell as they grow. Rosemary litde; nor sweet marjoram. That which above all others yields the sweetest smell in the air is the... | |
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