 The ingenious author of the Observations on Modern Gardening is, I think, too rigid when he condemns some deceptions because they have been often used. If those deceptions, as a feigned steeple of a distant church, or an unreal bridge to disguise the...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1911892Full view - About this book
 | History - 1781 - 732 pages
...diftant church, or an unreal bridge to difguife the termination of water, were intended only to furprife, they were indeed tricks that would not bear repetition ; but being intended to improve the landscape, sre no more to be condemned becaufe common, than they would be if employed by a painter in the compoiition... | |
 | Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1785 - 698 pages
...diftant church, or an unreal bridge to difguife the termination of water, were intended only to furprife, they were indeed tricks that would not bear repetition ; but being intended to improve the landfcape, are no more to be condemned becaufe common, than they would be ifemployed by a painter in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 762 pages
...diftant church, or an unreal bridge to difguife the termination of water, were intended only to furprife, they were indeed tricks that would not bear repetition ; but being intended to improve the landfcape, are no more to be condemned becaufe common, than they would be if employed Ъу a painter... | |
 | History - 1788 - 734 pages
...church, or an unreal bridge- to difguife the termination of water, were intended only to furprife, they were indeed tricks that would not bear repetition; but being intended to Improve the landfcape, are no more to be condemned becaufe common, than they would be if employed fey a painter... | |
 | Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1803 - 460 pages
...condemns some deceptions, because they ' have been often used. If those deceptions, as a ' feigned steeple of a distant church, or an unreal ' bridge...the termination of water, were * intended only to surprize, they were indeed tricks » that would not bear repetition ; but being in* tended to improve... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Artists - 1827 - 400 pages
...auspices.] condemns some deceptions, because they have been often used. If those deceptions, as a feigned steeple of a distant church, or an unreal bridge to...common, than they would be if employed by a painter in the composition of a picture. Ought one man's garden to be deprived of a happy object, because that... | |
 | Gardening - 1849 - 466 pages
...when he condemns some deceptions because they have been often used. If those deceptions, as a feigned steeple of a distant church, or an unreal bridge to...common, than they would be if employed by a painter in the composition of a picture. Ought one man's garden to be deprived of a happy object, because that... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 pages
...when he condemns some deceptions because they have been often used. If those deceptions, as a feigned steeple of a distant church, or an unreal bridge to disguise the termination of water, were 1 Borromini was not deeunccl to be the last of capricious architects ; that sect has reappeared in... | |
 | Walter Howe - Gardening - 1890 - 332 pages
...when he condemns some deceptions because they have been often used. If those deceptions, as a feigned steeple of a distant church, or an unreal bridge to...common, than they would be if employed by a painter in the composition of a picture. Ought one man's garden to be deprived of a happy object, because that... | |
 | Mrs. Evelyn Cecil - Gardening - 1896 - 436 pages
...or grandeur," a "grove for beauty," a cave or grotto was to strike " horror or terror." "A feigned steeple of a distant church or an unreal bridge, to disguise the termination of water,"* were brought in to "improve the landscape." These designers were careful not only of form but of colour,... | |
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