A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardeningWiley and Putnam, 1844 |
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... introduced , -considerable new matter has been added , the whole has been revised , and newly and more copiously illustrated , from examples now existing in this country , -and the work is now offered in a much more complete form , than ...
... introduced , -considerable new matter has been added , the whole has been revised , and newly and more copiously illustrated , from examples now existing in this country , -and the work is now offered in a much more complete form , than ...
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... introducing vines , p . 298. Beautiful effects of climbing plants in connection with buildings , p . 299 . SECTION ... introduction of fences , p . 315 . Verdant hedges , p . 316 . SECTION VIII . TREATMENT OF WATER . Beautiful effects of ...
... introducing vines , p . 298. Beautiful effects of climbing plants in connection with buildings , p . 299 . SECTION ... introduction of fences , p . 315 . Verdant hedges , p . 316 . SECTION VIII . TREATMENT OF WATER . Beautiful effects of ...
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... introduction of decorations , p . 441 . APPENDIX . I. Notes on transplanting trees , p . 442. Reasons for frequent failures in removing large trees , p . 442. Directions for performing this operation , p . 445. Selection of subjects , p ...
... introduction of decorations , p . 441 . APPENDIX . I. Notes on transplanting trees , p . 442. Reasons for frequent failures in removing large trees , p . 442. Directions for performing this operation , p . 445. Selection of subjects , p ...
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... introduction and preservation of forms pleasing in their expression , their outlines , and their fitness for the abode of man . In the orchard , we hope to gratify the palate , in the flower garden , the eye and the smell , but in the ...
... introduction and preservation of forms pleasing in their expression , their outlines , and their fitness for the abode of man . In the orchard , we hope to gratify the palate , in the flower garden , the eye and the smell , but in the ...
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... introduced with King William , and had their hey- day of fashion ; and we may get a good notion of the subjects most in vogue , by an extract from Pope's keen satire on the popular taste , written as late as 1713 , when it was be ...
... introduced with King William , and had their hey- day of fashion ; and we may get a good notion of the subjects most in vogue , by an extract from Pope's keen satire on the popular taste , written as late as 1713 , when it was be ...
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Page 269 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 148 - Though bush or floweret never grow My dark unwarming shade below ; Nor summer bud perfume the dew Of rosy blush or yellow hue ; Nor fruits of autumn, blossom-born, My green and glossy leaves adorn ; Nor murmuring tribes from me derive Th...
Page 19 - The Tower of Babel not yet finished. St. George in Box ; his arm scarce long enough, but will be in a condition to stick the Dragon by next April.
Page 66 - Consult the genius of the place in all: That tells the waters or to rise or fall; Or helps the ambitious hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the vale ; Calls in the country, catches opening glades, Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades; Now breaks, or now directs, the intending lines; Paints, as you plant, and, as you work, designs.
Page 143 - There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.
Page 223 - Come, my Corinna, come; and, coming, mark How each field turns a street, each street a park Made green and trimmed with trees; see how Devotion gives each house a bough Or branch: each porch, each door, ere this, An ark, a tabernacle is, Made up of white-thorn, neatly interwove; As if here were those cooler shades of love.
Page 375 - ... Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees, heaping up rich piles of foliage ; the solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades, with the deer trooping in silent herds across them ; the hare bounding away to the covert or the pheasant suddenly bursting upon the wing ; the brook, taught to wind in...
Page 161 - The murdered traveller's bones were found, Far down a narrow glen. The fragrant birch, above him, hung Her tassels in the sky; And many a vernal blossom sprung, And nodded careless by. . The red-bird warbled, as he wrought His hanging nest o'erhead, And fearless, near the fatal spot, Her young the partridge led. But there was weeping far away, And gentle eyes, for him, With watching many an anxious day, Were sorrowful and dim.
Page 374 - The taste of the English in the cultivation of land and in what is called landscape gardening is unrivalled. They have studied Nature intently, and discover an exquisite sense of her beautiful forms and harmonious combinations. Those charms which in other countries she lavishes in wild solitudes are here assembled round the haunts of domestic life.
Page 374 - Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence of English park scenery. Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees heaping up rich piles of foliage; the solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades with the deer trooping in silent herds across them...