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" I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff; they be for children. "
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to ... - Page 29
by Andrew Jackson Downing - 1852 - 532 pages
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...whatsoever form you cast it into, first it be not too busy, or full of work ; wherein I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff; they be for children. Little low hedges round, like welts, with some pretty pyramids, I like v. '-I! ; and...
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The History of Belvoir Castle: From the Norman Conquest to the Nineteenth ...

Irvin Eller - Belvoir Castle - 1841 - 450 pages
...specimens of wild nature. " As for the making of knots or figures," says he, " with divers coloured earths, they be but toys. I do not like images cut...juniper, or other garden stuff, they are for children." Milton, in his description of the garden of Eden, paints a landscape wholly different from the models...
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The History of Belvoir Castle: From the Norman Conquest to the Nineteenth ...

Irvin Eller - Belvoir Castle - 1841 - 458 pages
...specimens of wild nature. " As for the making of knots or figures," says he, " with divers coloured earths, they be but toys. I do not like images cut...juniper, or other garden stuff, they are for children." Milton, in his description of the garden of Eden, paints a landscape wholly different from the models...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 31

Theology - 1842 - 432 pages
...divers colored earths, they be but toys ; you may see as good sights many times in tarts. I for my part do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff; they be for children." Attempts at the artificial arrangement of flowering plants in clumps and belts are...
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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to ...

Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1844 - 548 pages
...windows of the house, they be but toys ; you may see as good sights many times in tarts. I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff; they are for children." Without a doubt, however, the glory and merit of the gardening revolution belong mainly to Addison...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 16

United States - 1845 - 648 pages
...for the making of knots and figures with divers colored earths, they be but toys ; I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff; they be for children." We surely do not want Turkish boudoirs, winter-alcoves, Indian shades, or elaborately...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...whatsoever form you cast it into, first it be not too busy or full of work, wherein I, for my part, do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff, they be for children. Little low hedges round like welts with some pretty pyramids, I like well ; and in...
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Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon: Mistress of the Robes to Queen ..., Volume 2

Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Great Britain - 1847 - 426 pages
...whatsoever form you cast it into first, it be not too busy, or full of work ; wherein I do, for my part, not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff: they are for children. Little low hedges, round like belts, I like well. "I would also have the alleys spacious and fair....
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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening: Adapted to ...

Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1849 - 550 pages
...parterres, and ornamented with all kinds of trained and clipped trees, interspersed with statues — and, in the finest examples, not omitting that delightful...for food's sake in a kitchen garden and orchard, or fos pleasure's sake in a green grass-plot and an arbor." In his details of the ornamental garden he...
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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening: Adapted to ...

Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1850 - 576 pages
...statues — and, in the finest examples, not omitting that delightful puzzle of the time a "labirynth." Lord Bacon attempted to reform the national taste...for food's sake in a kitchen garden and orchard, or fo* pleasure's sake in a green grass-plot and an arbor." In his details of the ornamental garden he...
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