 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1833 - 678 pages
...nature. Warton thinks " that ' the most engaging of Kent's works was also planned ' on the model of Pope's, — at least in the opening and ' retiring shades of Venus's Vale." ' It is true that Pope was infirm and deformed ; but ' he could walk, and he could ride (he rode to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 446 pages
...imitated nature. Warton thinks " that the most engaging of Kent's works was also planned on the model of Pope's, — at least in the opening and retiring shades of Venus's Vale." It is true that Pope was infirm and deformed ; but he could walk, and he could ride (he rode to Oxford... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...perspective. I do not know whether the disposition of the garden at Rousham, laid out by General Dormer, and, in my opinion, the most engaging of all Kent's...the opening and retiring " shades of Venus's Vale." It ought to be observed, that many years before this Epistle was written, and before Kent was employed... | |
 | Gardening - 1849 - 466 pages
...perspective. 1 I do not know whether the disposition of the garden at Rousham, laid out for General Dormer, and in my opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works, was not planned on the model of Mr. Pope's, 2 at least in the opening and retiring shades of Venus's vale. The whole is as elegant and antique... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 pages
...perspective.1 I do not know whether the disposition of the garden at Rousham, laid out for General Dormer, and in my opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works, was not planned on the model of Mr. Pope's,2 at least in the opening and retiring shades of Venus's vale. The whole is as elegant and antique... | |
 | Walter Howe - Gardening - 1890 - 332 pages
...perspective. I do not know whether the disposition of the garden at Rousham, laid out for General Dormer, and in my opinion the most engaging of all Kent's...Pope's, at least in the opening and retiring shades of Venus' vale. The whole is as elegant and antique as if the Emperor Julian had selected the most pleasing... | |
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I do not know whether the disposition of the garden at Rousham, laid out for General Dormer, and in my opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works, was not planned on the model of Mr. POPE'S, at least in the opening and retiring 
