The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820John Dixon Hunt, Peter Willis Presents an anthology and commentary on the English landscape garden. |
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Page 143
... whole Sett of them is blown up , and the whole Prospect or Garden flourishes in the Imagination . But because the Pleasure we received from these Places far surmounted , and overcame the little Disagree- ableness we found in them , for ...
... whole Sett of them is blown up , and the whole Prospect or Garden flourishes in the Imagination . But because the Pleasure we received from these Places far surmounted , and overcame the little Disagree- ableness we found in them , for ...
Page 154
... whole Country look like an Ocean . FROM all which it is justly infer'd , that the whole Art of Designing consists in a just Agreement of the several Parts one with another ; and the adapting the whole to the Nature and Uses of the Place ...
... whole Country look like an Ocean . FROM all which it is justly infer'd , that the whole Art of Designing consists in a just Agreement of the several Parts one with another ; and the adapting the whole to the Nature and Uses of the Place ...
Page 281
... whole furniture of a room in a cherry stone ; it is a scene for fairies . THIS is but the old taste of shaped flower - knots in box , cut yews , and clipt hedges , in another edition , which has no more taste than the former . PERHAPS ...
... whole furniture of a room in a cherry stone ; it is a scene for fairies . THIS is but the old taste of shaped flower - knots in box , cut yews , and clipt hedges , in another edition , which has no more taste than the former . PERHAPS ...
Contents
Part | 47 |
JOHN EVELYN 16201706 | 57 |
ANDREW MARVELL 162178 | 68 |
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adorned agreeable Alleys appear arch architecture banks Bason beautiful Blaise Castle British Library Brown Buckinghamshire building Canal cascade Castle Castle Howard character charms Chinese clumps colour delightful distance elegant English garden English landscape garden Engraving Envil Flowers Fountains Front gardenist Genius give grandeur green Grotto ground Groves Hedges hill Humphry Repton ideas imagination improved irregular John Evelyn Kent kind lake landskip lawn Leasowes lines London Lord Lord Burlington magnificent mind nature noble o'er objects Ornaments painter painting park Parterre picturesque plain plantations planted Plate pleasing pleasure Prospect Repton rise river rocks ruins rural scenery scenes seat shade shew shrubs side situation sloping spot Statues Stephen Switzer stone Stourhead Stowe stream Streatham sublime surprize taste Temple Terrass thing thro trees Twickenham variety Villa walk Walls whole wild Wilderness William Chambers William Kent winding wood