Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I( -II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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Page 149
... Gardener . Bolingbroke hath seized the wasteful King , What pity is't that he had not fo trimm'd And drefs'd his land , as we this garden dress , And wound the bark , the flin of our fruit - trees ; Left , being over proud with fap and ...
... Gardener . Bolingbroke hath seized the wasteful King , What pity is't that he had not fo trimm'd And drefs'd his land , as we this garden dress , And wound the bark , the flin of our fruit - trees ; Left , being over proud with fap and ...
Page 163
... gardener to his fervants , is extremely improper : Go bind thou up yon dangling apricots , Which , like unruly children make their fire Stoop with oppreffion , of their prodigal weight : Give fome fupportance to the bending twigs . Go ...
... gardener to his fervants , is extremely improper : Go bind thou up yon dangling apricots , Which , like unruly children make their fire Stoop with oppreffion , of their prodigal weight : Give fome fupportance to the bending twigs . Go ...
Page 234
... garden , Where the fun always fhines : there long the flourish'd , Grew fweet to fenfe and lovely to the eye , Till at the laft a cruel fpoiler came , Cropt this fair rofe , and rifled all its fweetnefs , Then caft it like a loathfome ...
... garden , Where the fun always fhines : there long the flourish'd , Grew fweet to fenfe and lovely to the eye , Till at the laft a cruel fpoiler came , Cropt this fair rofe , and rifled all its fweetnefs , Then caft it like a loathfome ...
Page 337
... author , unity of place is pre- ferved during every act , and a stricter unity of time during the whole play , than is neceffary . VOL . II . X CHAP . CHAP . XXIV . Gardening and Architecture . THE books CH . XXIII . 337 The Three Unities .
... author , unity of place is pre- ferved during every act , and a stricter unity of time during the whole play , than is neceffary . VOL . II . X CHAP . CHAP . XXIV . Gardening and Architecture . THE books CH . XXIII . 337 The Three Unities .
Page 338
... Gardening was at first an useful art : in the garden of Alcinous , described by Homer , we find nothing done for pleafure merely . But gardening is now improved into a fine art ; and when we talk of a garden without any epithet , a pleasure ...
... Gardening was at first an useful art : in the garden of Alcinous , described by Homer , we find nothing done for pleafure merely . But gardening is now improved into a fine art ; and when we talk of a garden without any epithet , a pleasure ...
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