A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardeningWiley and Putnam, 1844 |
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... less strongly , in every heart . In Landscape Gardening the country gentleman of leisure finds a resource of the most agreeable nature . While there is no more rational pleasure than that derived from its prac- tice by him , who ...
... less strongly , in every heart . In Landscape Gardening the country gentleman of leisure finds a resource of the most agreeable nature . While there is no more rational pleasure than that derived from its prac- tice by him , who ...
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... less strongly fixed in the minds of all men . But we should convey a false impression , were we to state that it may be applied with equal success to residences of every class and size , in the country . Lawn and trees , being its two ...
... less strongly fixed in the minds of all men . But we should convey a false impression , were we to state that it may be applied with equal success to residences of every class and size , in the country . Lawn and trees , being its two ...
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... less abundant , than the sculptural ornaments which they serve to set off to advantage . An island -- Isola Bella - in one of their little lakes , has often been quoted as the most highly wrought type of the Italian taste ; " a barren ...
... less abundant , than the sculptural ornaments which they serve to set off to advantage . An island -- Isola Bella - in one of their little lakes , has often been quoted as the most highly wrought type of the Italian taste ; " a barren ...
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... less of parterre ; more gravel than turf ; more of the de- ciduous than the evergreen tree . The practical water - wit of drenching the spectators was in high vogue in the ancient French gardens ; and Evelyn , in his account of the Duke ...
... less of parterre ; more gravel than turf ; more of the de- ciduous than the evergreen tree . The practical water - wit of drenching the spectators was in high vogue in the ancient French gardens ; and Evelyn , in his account of the Duke ...
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... less shadowed forth . The Vaucluse of Petrarch , Tasso's garden of Armida , the vale of Tempe of Ælian , were all exquisite conceptions of the modern style . And Milton , surrounded as he was by the splendid formali- ties of the gardens ...
... less shadowed forth . The Vaucluse of Petrarch , Tasso's garden of Armida , the vale of Tempe of Ælian , were all exquisite conceptions of the modern style . And Milton , surrounded as he was by the splendid formali- ties of the gardens ...
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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...