 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.  The Horticultural Register - Page 511834Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram; that which, above all others, yields... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...for that delight, than to know what be ' e flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Hoses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ;...yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram ; that which, above all others, yields... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 614 pages
...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 Ïlauts that do best perfume the air.' For the heath wish it to be framed as much as may be to a natural... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pages
...aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling of musicke) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants which . doe best perfume the aire." I always envy what Cowper calls " the occupations of a retired... | |
 | 1822 - 600 pages
...the aire (where it comes and goes like the warbling ofmusicke) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants which doe best perfume the aire." I always envy what Cowper calls " the occupations of a retired gentleman... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...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...sweetness : yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Baj's likewise yield no smell, as they grow; rosemary, little ; nor sweet marjorum. That which above... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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...yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet majoram ; that which, above all others, yields... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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...yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet majoram ; that which, above all others, yields... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...yea, though it be in a morning's dew. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet majoram ; that which, above all others, yields... | |
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