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... lawns of an acre or two , which makes a pleasing variety . · ' IN some of them we plant the Cedar of Liba- nus at good distances , so as to form irregular groves ; and this sort of tree seems to thrive to • admiration on the forest ...
... lawns of an acre or two , which makes a pleasing variety . · ' IN some of them we plant the Cedar of Liba- nus at good distances , so as to form irregular groves ; and this sort of tree seems to thrive to • admiration on the forest ...
Page 210
... lawn admitted in those times , a circular lake the extent of magnificence . 6 " YET though these and such preposterous incon- ' veniences prevailed from age to age , good sense • · in this country had perceived the want of some- thing ...
... lawn admitted in those times , a circular lake the extent of magnificence . 6 " YET though these and such preposterous incon- ' veniences prevailed from age to age , good sense • · in this country had perceived the want of some- thing ...
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... lawn within ; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity , that ' it might assort with the wilder country without . • The sunk fence ascertained the specific garden , ' but that it might not draw too obvious ...
... lawn within ; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from its prim regularity , that ' it might assort with the wilder country without . • The sunk fence ascertained the specific garden , ' but that it might not draw too obvious ...
Page 227
... lawn ; · " evergreens and woods were opposed to the glare ' of the champaign ; and where the view was less fortunate , or so much exposed as to be beheld at once , he blotted out some parts by thick shades , 6 6 · to divide it into ...
... lawn ; · " evergreens and woods were opposed to the glare ' of the champaign ; and where the view was less fortunate , or so much exposed as to be beheld at once , he blotted out some parts by thick shades , 6 6 · to divide it into ...
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... lawn , and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead up to his mother's tomb , are managed with exquisite judgement ; ' and though Lord Peterborough assisted him To form his quincunx and to rank his vines , ⚫ those ...
... lawn , and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead up to his mother's tomb , are managed with exquisite judgement ; ' and though Lord Peterborough assisted him To form his quincunx and to rank his vines , ⚫ those ...
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Page 213 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 212 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
Page 217 - It lies on the side of a hill (upon which the house stands), but not very steep. The length of the house, where the best rooms and of most use or pleasure are, lies upon the breadth of the garden; the great parlour...
Page 212 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Water'd the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears ; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account...
Page 219 - ... shall yet, upon the whole, be very agreeable. Something of this I have seen in some places, but heard more of it from others who have lived much among the Chineses ; a people, whose way of thinking seems to lie as wide of ours in Europe, as their country does.
Page 207 - The tricks of waterworks to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like a petticoat, were but the childish endeavours of fashion and novelty to reconcile greatness to what it had surfeited on. To crown these impotent displays of false taste, the...
Page 227 - At that 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 strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays.
Page 231 - I do not know whether the disposition of the garden at Rousham, laid out for General Dormer, and in my opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works, was not planned on the model of Mr. POPE'S, at least in the opening and retiring
Page 249 - The bosom of the mountains spreading here into a broad basin, discovers in the midst Grasmere Water ; its margin is hollowed into small bays, with bold eminences, some of rock, some of soft turf, that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command...
Page 220 - European gardens are formally uniform and varied; but with regard to nature it seems as much avoided as in the squares and oblongs and straight lines of our ancestors.