 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 หน้า
...have " ver perpaluum," as the place affords. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter [13] in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling...flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. Roses, [14] damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 หน้า
...recesses. 'The breath of flowers,' as Bacon beautifully observes, 'is far sweeter in the air, when it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand.' Even the rich illustrations which fancy scatters over the page of the orator or the poet, may be crowded... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 หน้า
...climate of London ; but my meaning is perceived, that you may have ver perpetuum" as the place afibrds. And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in...therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to 1 Ribes. Currants. ' Rasps. Raspberries. ' Now will the corinths, now the rasps, supply Delicious draughts.'... | |
 | 1922 - 854 หน้า
...the smell of flowers in comparison with any book on the subject written in our own times. He says: Because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the...that delight than to know what be the flowers and plant s that do best perfume the air. Roses, dama.sk and red, are fast flowers of their smell, so that... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1922 - 452 หน้า
...flowers with music. He writes: "And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (whence 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 perfume the air. Roses, damask, and... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - 1923 - 328 หน้า
...in words, is perhaps the most purely idyllic passage of all : 1 »'.«., as if they were seated so. Because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the...air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smell ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness, yea, though... | |
 | Joseph Jacob - 1924 - 144 หน้า
...Breath of Flowers is farr sweeter in the Air (whence it comes and goes, like the warbling of Musick) than in the Hand, therefore nothing is more fit for...Flowers and Plants that do best perfume the Air." I must put in a plea for the aroma that comes from a large bed of Heavenly Blue on a blazing hot day... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1906 - 832 หน้า
...and giving odours." But is our unpoetical Bacon so far behind? "The breath of flowers," he writes, "is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand." Again, the heedless, thoughtless Shakespeare opposed by Mr. Grant White to the judicious Bacon, was... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 352 หน้า
...wall-flower, the stock-gilliflower, the cowslip, flowerde-luces, and lilies of all natures. . . ." " And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in...the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air .... that which, above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet." Twelfth Night.... | |
 | Burges Johnson - 1927 - 340 หน้า
...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. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of then- smells ; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness ; yea,... | |
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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. 
