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Page 155
... valley is chosen ( as near the ' center of the intended plantations as may be ) for “ the purpose of a nursery ; if this valley is sur- ' rounded with hills on all sides but the south , so * much the better . After having allotted a ...
... valley is chosen ( as near the ' center of the intended plantations as may be ) for “ the purpose of a nursery ; if this valley is sur- ' rounded with hills on all sides but the south , so * much the better . After having allotted a ...
Page 163
... valley , and tend , as it were , to the same center . " AFTER those patches are planted , or marked out for that purpose , we then proceed to the ' planting in general . We always begin with planting the largest young trees of every ...
... valley , and tend , as it were , to the same center . " AFTER those patches are planted , or marked out for that purpose , we then proceed to the ' planting in general . We always begin with planting the largest young trees of every ...
Page 169
... valleys . ' 6 • BESIDES this inconvenience , the reflection of ⚫ our sandy soil is so very great , that we find the plants stand a dry season much better in our pre- ⚫ sent method , than in the former : and whoever ⚫ fancies that ...
... valleys . ' 6 • BESIDES this inconvenience , the reflection of ⚫ our sandy soil is so very great , that we find the plants stand a dry season much better in our pre- ⚫ sent method , than in the former : and whoever ⚫ fancies that ...
Page 206
... valley to the hill . Balustrades defended these precipitate and dangerous elevations , and flights of steps rejoined ⚫ them to the subjacent flat from which the terrace 6 · * It was not uncommon , after the circumadjacent coun- try had ...
... valley to the hill . Balustrades defended these precipitate and dangerous elevations , and flights of steps rejoined ⚫ them to the subjacent flat from which the terrace 6 · * It was not uncommon , after the circumadjacent coun- try had ...
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... valley changing imperceptibly into each other , ⚫ tasted the beauty of the gentle swell or concave · scoop , and remarked how loose groves crowned an easy eminence with happy ornament , and while they called in the distant view between ...
... valley changing imperceptibly into each other , ⚫ tasted the beauty of the gentle swell or concave · scoop , and remarked how loose groves crowned an easy eminence with happy ornament , and while they called in the distant view between ...
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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.