 | Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1803 - 460 pages
...seen in some places, but heard more of it from ' ' others, who have lived much among the Chinese, '' a people whose way of thinking seems to lie as " wide...'' in contriving figures, where the beauty shall be t' great and strike the eye, but without any order " or disposition of parts, that shall be commonly... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1876 - 768 pages
...145. SIE W. TEMPLE says of the Chinese gardens, " Their greatest reach of imagination is employed ¡n contriving figures, where the beauty shall be great...strike the eye, but without any order or disposition of parte that shall be commonly or easily observed. And though we have hardly any notion of this sort... | |
 | 1856 - 638 pages
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Planting, and say a Boy, that can tell an Hundred, may plant Walks of Trees in straight Lines, and overagainst one another, and to what Length and Extent he pleases. But their greatest Reach of Imagination is employed in contriving Figures, where the... 
