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" On this account our English gardens are not so entertaining to the fancy as those in France and Italy, where we see a large extent of ground covered over with an agreeable mixture of garden and forest, which represent every where an artificial rudeness,... "
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening - Page 116
by Samuel Felton - 1830 - 221 pages
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1726 - 336 pages
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The Spectator, Volume 6

1767 - 334 pages
...our Englijh gardens are not fo entertaining to the fancy as thofe in France and Italy, where we fee a large extent of ground covered over •with an agreeable mixture of garden and foreft, which . rcprefent every where an artificial rudenefs, much more charming than that neatnefs...
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The English Garden: A Poem in Four Books

William Mason - Gardens - 1783 - 268 pages
...that country but a little after, may be accounted for ; " for he fays, " their Gardens then contained a large extent of " ground covered over with an agreeable mixture of " Garden and Foreft, which reprefent every where an " artificial rudenels, much more charming than that '.' neatnefs...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 5

1786 - 670 pages
...our Englifh gardens are not fo entertaining to the fancy as thofe in France and Italy, where we Ice a large extent of ground covered over with an agreeable mixture of garden and foreft, which, reprefent every where an avùRcuA ï\M\entfs, much mote charmvng t\vii\ \YvaX pcatncfs...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1793 - 518 pages
...Englifh gardens are not *4 fo entertaining to the fancy as thofe in France *' and Italy, where we fee a large extent of ground *' covered over with an agreeable mixture of garden. .'* arid foreft, which reprefent every where an ar" tificial rudeness, much more charming than that...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Mason - 1796 - 264 pages
...that country but a little after, may be accounted for; "for" he fays, " their Gardens thfen "contained a large extent of " ground covered over with an agreeable mixture of " Garden and Foreft, which reprefent every where an " artificial rudsnefs, much more charming than that " neatnefs...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose ..., Volume 2

1797 - 522 pages
...our Englith gardens are not fo entertaining to the fancy as thofe in France and Italy, where we fee a large extent of ground covered over with an agreeable mixture of garden and foreft, which reprefent every w here an artificial rudenefs, much more charming than that neatnefs...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 416 pages
...Englifh gardens are not fo enter-" taining to the fancy as thofe in France and Italy, where we . " fee a large extent of ground covered over with an agreeable " mixture of garden and foreft, which reprefents every where " an artificial rudenefs, much more charming than that neat*'...
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...receive from the nicer and more accurate productions of art. On this account our English gardensare not so entertaining to the fancy as those in France...elegancy which we meet with in those of our own country. It might, indeed, be of ill consequence to the public, as well as unprofitable to private persons,...
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The Spectator ...

English essays - 1803 - 420 pages
...entertaining to the fancy as those in France and Italy, where we see a large extent of ground coyered over with an agreeable mixture of garden and forest,...elegancy which we meet with in those of our own country. It might indeed be of ill consequence to the public, as well as unprofitable to private persons, to...
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