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" Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enougli to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a... "
A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 391
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(Selections From) Observations on Modern Gardening

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...
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(Selections From) Observations on Modern Gardening

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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 176

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...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

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...
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An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, comprehending the theory and practice of ...

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, "...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 9

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...
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A New and Complete History of the County of York, Volume 4

Thomas Allen - Yorkshire (England) - 1828 - 598 pages
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A history of English gardening

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...
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A History of English Gardening, Chronological, Biographical, Literary, and ...

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...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 6

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 626 pages
...Walpole, he was painter enough to tame the charms of landscape, sufficiently bold and opinionativc 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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