| Thomas Whately - 1801 - 186 pages
...that moment appeared 'lent, painter í the charms of landskip, bold and opionative enough to dare к and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nal garden. He felt the delicious contrast... | |
| Thomas Whately - 1801 - 172 pages
...ideas. At that moment appeared Kent, paintei the charms of landskip, bold and opionative enough to dare and born with a genius to strike out a great system from t imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all r garden. He felt the delicious contrast... | |
| 1892 - 626 pages
...Kent of the marked line of demarcation between the artificial garden and the natural landscape — ' He leaped the fence ' and saw that all nature was a garden ' — Mr. Blomfield characterises as ' his masterpiece of claptrap ; ' but so brilliant a literary... | |
| 1808 - 408 pages
...moment appeared Kent, painter enough to taste the charme of landscape, bold, and opinionativc enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out а ц. eut System from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature... | |
| John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...nature was a. garden ; " painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionativu enough to dare, and to dictate, and born with a genius to...system ; from the twilight of imperfect essays, he realised the compositions of the greatest masters in painting. " " Kent," continues his lordship, "... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...moment appeared Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold, and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...out a great system from the twilight of imperfect • ssajs. He leaped the fence, and eaw that all nature was a garden. He felt the delicious contrast... | |
| George William Johnson - 1829 - 476 pages
...the charms of Landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, had genius sufficient to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. Mahomet imagined an Elisium, but Kent created many.* WILLIAM KENT was born in Yorkshire in 1685. He... | |
| George William Johnson - Gardening - 1829 - 466 pages
...the charms of Landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, had genius sufficient to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. Mahomet imagined an Elisium, but Kent created many.* WILLIAM KENT was born in Yorkshire in 1685. He... | |
| Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 620 pages
...WaJpole, he wai painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, sufficiently bold and opinionativr to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden. The great principles on which he worked were perspective, light and shade. Groups of trees broke a... | |
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