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" 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... "
On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise - Page 207
by Mr. Marshall (William) - 1803 - 454 pages
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THE MONTHLY REVIEW.

SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 pages
...parts of thofe fumptuous and felfifh folitudes ; and every improvement that was made, was but a (tep farther from nature. The tricks of water-works to wet the unwary, not to refrefh the panting fpcctator, and parterres embroidered in pattern* like a petticoat, were but the...
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Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise

Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1785 - 698 pages
...parts of thofe fumptuous and felfifli folitudes; and every improvement that was made, was but a Hep farther from nature. The tricks of water-works to wet the unwary, not to refreih the panting fpeftator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like a petticoa^, were but the...
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Planting and rural ornament [by W.H. Marshall].

William Marshall - 1796 - 486 pages
...of thofe ' fumptuous and ftlfifh folitudes ; and every im* provement that was made, was but a ftep farther * from nature. The tricks of water-works to wet ' the unwary, not to refrefh the panting fpectator, * and parterres embroidered in patterns like a pet' ticoat, were but...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

1808 - 408 pages
...expence »ere the constituent parts of those sumptuous and eelfish solitudes ; and every improvement that was made, was but a step farther from nature....greatness to what it had surfeited on. To crown these important displays uf false taste, the sheers were applied to the lovely wildness of form with which...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge ..., Volume 10

Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 772 pages
...parts of thofe fumptuous and felfilh folitudes ; and e> very improvement that was made, was but a ftep farther from nature. The tricks of waterworks to wet the unwary, not to refrefh the panting fpeftator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like a petticoat, were but the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 9

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...constituent parts of those sumptuous and selfish solitudes ; and every improvement that was made, was hut a step farther from nature» The tricks of waterworks...surfeited on. To crown these impotent displays of fal«e taste, the sheers were applied to the lovely wildness of form with which nature has distinguished...
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Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the ..., Volume 4

Horace Walpole - Artists - 1827 - 400 pages
...expence were the constituent parts of those sumptuous and selfish solitudes; and every improvement that was made, was but a step farther from nature. The tricks of water-works* had been shut out, to endeavour to recover it by raising large mounts of earth to peep over the walls...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 11

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...expense were the constituent parts of those sumptuous and selfish solitudes; and every improvement that was made was but a step farther from nature....fashion and novelty to reconcile greatness to what it surfeited on. To crown these impotent displays of false taste, the shears were applied to the lovely...
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includes "On modern gardening"

Gardening - 1849 - 466 pages
...expense were the constituent parts of those sumptuous and selfish solitudes ; and every improvement that was made, was but a step farther from nature. The tricks of water-works 2 to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like...
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Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the ..., Volume 3

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 pages
...expense were the constituent parts of those sumptuous and selfish solitudes ; and every improvement that was made, was but a step farther from nature. The tricks of water- works2 to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator, and parterres embroidered in...
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