| 1807 - 474 pages
...Bacon, in the following passage, makes the very same comparison. " And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, (when it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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 for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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 for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants, that do... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...spring," 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 for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...spring," as the plate 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 for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...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 for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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 for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...perpetunm," 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 for that delight, than to know what be ' e flowers and plants that do... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 614 pages
...gardening were the greater perfection. -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 Īlauts that do... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1824 - 670 pages
...language of our great contemporary, ' 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,'* you have taken care, I see, to select all those flowers and plants that do best perfume its breezes."... | |
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