Periodical Criticism, Volume 5Robert Cadell, 1836 |
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... taste and local circumstances recommend . We will first take a view of the subject generally , as appli- cable alike to the great chiefs and thanes possessed of what are , in the north , called countries , ' and to the private gentleman ...
... taste and local circumstances recommend . We will first take a view of the subject generally , as appli- cable alike to the great chiefs and thanes possessed of what are , in the north , called countries , ' and to the private gentleman ...
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... taste will be equally desirous that the boundaries of his plantation should follow the lines designed by nature , which are always easy and undulating , or bold , prominent , and elevated , but never either stiff or formal . In this ...
... taste will be equally desirous that the boundaries of his plantation should follow the lines designed by nature , which are always easy and undulating , or bold , prominent , and elevated , but never either stiff or formal . In this ...
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... taste , is almost always desirable . In short , the only persons who will suffer by the adoption of this system will be the admirers of mathematical regularity , who deem it essential that the mattock and spade be under the peremptory ...
... taste , is almost always desirable . In short , the only persons who will suffer by the adoption of this system will be the admirers of mathematical regularity , who deem it essential that the mattock and spade be under the peremptory ...
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... taste , and if barely formed with the spade , and drained , they will become , in a year or two , dry green sward , and require no metalling until they are employed in transporting heavy weights . But , whether formed or not , the space ...
... taste , and if barely formed with the spade , and drained , they will become , in a year or two , dry green sward , and require no metalling until they are employed in transporting heavy weights . But , whether formed or not , the space ...
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... taste , will find , in an extensive tract of waste lands , numerous recesses where the climate is mild , and the exposure favourable , an occasional intervention , in short , of ' Sheltered places , bosoms , nooks , and bays , " which ...
... taste , will find , in an extensive tract of waste lands , numerous recesses where the climate is mild , and the exposure favourable , an occasional intervention , in short , of ' Sheltered places , bosoms , nooks , and bays , " which ...
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acres advantage afford Allanton ancient appearance attended Banks bark beauty betwixt Blind Harry branches called castle character circumstances consequence considerable considered crime currency degree Earl earth Edinburgh England English exist expense exposed favour feet forest garden gold ground Highland honour improvement inhabitants interest King King of Scots kingdom kingdom of Scotland labour land larch least Lord Hailes MALACHI MALAGROWTHER manner Matthew of Westminster means ment mode natural necessary neighbours object operation opinion ornament Patrick Fraser Tytler perhaps person Picts plant plantation planter possessed present principle profit proprietor purpose reason recommended rendered respect roots Roxburghe Club Scot Scotland Scottish shelter shillings shoot Sir Henry Steuart Sir Walter Scott situation soil species stem suppose taste tenant thin tion Torthorwald transplanted trees Tytler Wallace whole wood
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Page 68 - ... crash And merciless ravage: and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being: and unless I now Confound my present feelings with the past...
Page 82 - 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 297 - Britain; with this difference betwixt the laws concerning public right, policy and civil government and those which concern private right, that the laws which concern public right, policy and civil government may be made the same throughout the whole United Kingdom, but that no alteration be made in laws which concern private right, except for evident utility of the subjects within Scotland.
Page 151 - That will never be. Who can impress" the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?
Page 79 - Sick of his civil pride from morn to eve ; I curse such lavish cost and little skill, And swear no day was ever pass'd so ill. Yet hence the poor are clothed, the hungry fed; Health to himself, and to his infants bread, The labourer bears : what his hard heart denies, His charitable vanity supplies.
Page 32 - To those who plant for profit, and are thrusting every other tree out of the way to make room for their favourite, the larch, I would utter first a regret that they should have selected these lovely vales for their vegetable manufactory, when there is so much barren and irreclaimable land in the neighbouring moors, and in other parts of the Island, which might have been had for this purpose at a far cheaper rate.
Page 93 - Chantilly, by Lord Herbert of Cherbury, though the scene is in France, and on a scale of unusual grandeur and extent, is no bad...
Page 78 - O blind of choice and to yourselves untrue ! The young grove shoots, their bloom the fields renew, The mansion asks its lord, the swains their friend ; While he doth riot's orgies haply share, Or tempt the gamester's dark, destroying snare, Or at some courtly shrine with slavish incense bend.
Page 77 - The Planter's Guide; or, a Practical Essay on the best Method of giving immediate Effect to Wood, by the Removal of large Trees...
Page 87 - Vitruvius, the enriched entablatures and superb stairs of the Italian school of gardening, we must not, on this account, be construed as vindicating the paltry imitations of the Dutch, who clipped yews into monsters of every species and description, and relieved them with the painted wooden figures which are seen much in the attitude of their owners, silent and snugly smoking at the end of the paltry walk of every Lust-huys, This topiarian art, as it was called, came into England with King William,...