 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. Bays, likewise, yield no smell as they grow, rosemary little, nor sweet marjoram;...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 214by Francis Bacon - 1815Full view - About this book
 | William Francis C. Wigston - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 502 pages
...experience, for the relationship of one sense to another — sight to hearing. Of odours he writes : — " That, which above all others, yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet " (Essay on " Gardens "). In the passage quoted from " Twelfth Night," we find the simile of flowers... | |
 | Henry Arthur Bright - Gardening - 1891 - 144 pages
...a perfume, which haunts them even when no single flower can be found. Bacon says that " the flower which above all others .yields the sweetest smell in the air is the Violet; specially the double white Violet which comes twice a-year: about the middle of April and about Bartholomew-tide."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 258 pages
...writers reckoned among the Wilde Roses. Craig refers to Bacon's Essay, " Of Gardens, where he says: "that which, above all others, yields the Sweetest Smell in the Air, is the Violet, . . . Next to that is the Musk Rose." See Ellacombe, Plant Lore of Shakespeare, sv 252. eglantine]... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford - English language - 1908 - 496 pages
...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...twice a year, about the middle of April, and about Bartholomew-tide ; next to that is the musk rose ; then the strawberry leaves dying with a most excellent... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1908 - 412 pages
...a morning's dew. Bays4 likewise yield no smell as they grow. Rosemary little ; nor sweet marjoram.5 That which above all others yields the sweetest smell in the air, is the violet, specially the white double violet, which comes twice a year ; about the middle of April, and about... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1909 - 360 pages
...damask and red, are fast flowers12 of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness ; yea though it be...yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet, specially the white double violet, which comes twice a year; about the middle of April, and about Bartholomew-tide.18... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Arbor Day - 1909 - 400 pages
...is more for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. That which above all others yields the sweetest smell...twice a year, about the middle of April, and about Bartholomew-tide. Next to that is the musk rose; then the strawberry leaves dying, with a most excellent... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Arbor Day - 1913 - 400 pages
...is more for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air. That which above all others yields the sweetest smell...twice a year, about the middle of April, and about Bartholomew-tide. Next to that is the musk rose; then the strawberry leaves dying, with a most excellent... | |
 | Katharine Tynan, Frances Maitland - Flower language - 1909 - 348 pages
...damask and red, are fast flowers of their smelles, so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness, yea though it be...little, nor sweet marjoram. " That which above all yields the sweetest smell in the air is the Violet, especially the white double violet which comes... | |
 | Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 348 pages
...damask and red, are fast flowers12 of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness; yea though it be...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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