On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions

About the year 1797 the late Mr. Nichols printed the Life of Robert _Grosseteste_, the celebrated Bishop of Lincoln. By Samuel Pegge, LL.D. With an Account of the Bishop's _Work...

[10] I cannot pass by the name of Henry, without the recollection of what an historian says of him: "L'Abbé Langlet du Fresnoy a publié cinquante-neuf lettres de a bon Roi, dans...

Dr. Pulteney says of him, "He raised himself by his merit from a state of obscurity to a degree of eminence, but rarely, if ever before, equalled in the character of a gardener....

In the Ashmolean Museum, is a portrait of the SON, _in his garden_, with a spade in his hand. In Mr. Nichols's "Illustrations to Granger," consisting of seventy-five portraits,...

Lord Weymouth; Dr. Sherard of Eltham; Collinson, "to whose name is attached all that respect which is due to benevolence and virtue;" Grindal, Bishop of London, who cultivated w...

The following pages apply only to those English writers on gardening who are deceased. That there have been portraits taken of _some_ of those sixty-nine English writers, whose...

The botanical works of Mr. Curtis have long been held in high esteem. The first number of his Flora Londinensis appeared in 1777. He commenced his Botanical Magazine in 1787. Hi...

[75] I cannot prevent myself from quoting a very small portion of the animated address of another clergyman, the Rev. J. G. Morris, as chairman to the Wakefield Horticultural So...

Gardens, their pleasures, see preface, and 24, 27, 28, 30, 39, 47, 63, 64, 89, 110, 121, 153 ---- those of antiquity, 1 ---- those of the Saxons, Danes and Normans, xxxv., xxxvi...

Mr. Lawrence thus enforces the pleasures of a garden, to his own order:--"to make them happy by loving an innocent diversion, the amusements of a garden being not only most deli...

Miss Seward, after stating that professional generosity distinguished Dr. Darwin's medical practice at Lichfield, farther says, that "diligently also did he attend to the health...

It appears from Ray's History of Plants, that Jacob Bobart, the son, was a frequent communicator to him of scarce plants. It was this son who published the second volume of Morr...

how he was forced from his father's house when a little boy, and driven like a POSTING HORSE, being impressed to sing as a chorister, at Wallingford College; his miseries there,...

The Quarterly Review, in reviewing Light's Travels, observes, that "Cheops employed three hundred and sixty thousand of his subjects for twenty years in raising this pyramid, or...

His remarks on some of the characters of Shakspeare (whom, in his _Observations_, he calls _the great master of nature_) breathe in many of his pages, that fire, which he could...

These love poems seem all to have been written in his old age; and that passion causes him thus to open his first book:--"Love was the inventor, and is still the maintainer, of...

The European Magazine of Nov. 1790, which gives an engraved portrait of him, being a copy of the above, thus speaks: "He was one of the very first who to great legal knowledge,...

TIMOTHY NOURSE, whose "Campania Foelix," 8vo. 1700, has prefixed to it, a very neat engraving by Vander Gucht, of rural life. He has chapters on Fruit Trees; on the several kind...

Their other Work was thus announced in one of the original numbers of the Spectator, which came out in small folio weekly numbers, and a portion of each number was appropriated...

[59] The benevolent mind of the marquis shines even in his concluding chapter; for he there wishes "to bring us back to a true taste for beautiful nature--to more humane and sal...

[95] Of this celebrated biographer of Dr. Darwin (whose Verses to the Memory of Mr. Garrick, and whose Monody on Captain Cook, will live as long as our language is spoken,) Sir...