 | Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1803 - 460 pages
...seen in some places, but heard more of it from ' ' others, who have lived much among the Chinese, '' a people whose way of thinking seems to lie as " wide...'' in contriving figures, where the beauty shall be t' great and strike the eye, but without any order " or disposition of parts, that shall be commonly... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1876 - 768 pages
...145. SIE W. TEMPLE says of the Chinese gardens, " Their greatest reach of imagination is employed ¡n contriving figures, where the beauty shall be great...strike the eye, but without any order or disposition of parte that shall be commonly or easily observed. And though we have hardly any notion of this sort... | |
 | Hanno-Walter Kruft - Architecture - 1994 - 802 pages
...what Length and Extem he pleases. But their greatest Reach of Imagination is employed in comriving Figures, where the Beauty shall be great, and strike the Eye, but without any Order or Disposition of Pans, that shall be commonly or easily observ'd. And though we have hardly any Notion of this Sort... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 300 pages
...Planting, and say a Boy, that can tell an Hundred, may plant Walks of Trees in Straight Lines . . . But their greatest Reach of Imagination is employed in...Disposition of Parts, that shall be commonly or easily observ'd. And though we have hardly any Notion of this Sort of Beauty, yet they have a particular Word... | |
 | David Porter - History - 2001 - 324 pages
...of Trees in straight Lines." The Chinese, in contrast, employ the greatest Reach of Imagination ... in contriving Figures, where the Beauty shall be great,...Disposition of Parts, that shall be commonly or easily observ'd. And though we have hardly any Notion of this Sort of Beauty, yet they have a particular Word... | |
 | David Sylvester - Art - 2001 - 548 pages
...English tradition of landscape gardening aspired to an organic, irregular, unpredictable composition 'without any order or disposition of parts that shall be commonly or evenly observed'. The principle just cited was formulated in 1685 by that remarkable landscape gardener,... | |
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - Architecture - 2009 - 584 pages
...symmetries and regularities of the European style of gardening and described their contrary approach: "But their greatest reach of imagination is employed in...disposition of parts that shall be commonly or easily observed."85 Temple even gave the Chinese word for this artful contrivance, Sharaivadgi. Interestingly,... | |
 | Gang Chen - Gardening - 2007 - 256 pages
...today. Temple wrote: "The Chinese scorn this [formal] way of planting... But their greatest reach of the imagination is employed in contriving Figures, where...be great and strike the Eye, but without any Order of Disposition of Parts, that shall be commonly or easily observed." The idea of breaking away from... | |
 | Ana-Stanca Tabarasi - Gardens - 2007 - 516 pages
...trees in straight lines, and over-against one another, and to what length and extent he pleases. But their greatest reach of Imagination is employed in...Order or disposition of parts that shall be commonly observed: and though we have hardly any notion of this sort of beauty, yet they have a particular word... | |
 | Richard Ingersoll - 2004 - 32 pages
...from descriptions by the missionary Father Ricci and from scroll paintings, held that in sharawaggi: ,,Beauty shall be great and strike the Eye, but without any order or disposition of parts..." A visit to the great scholars' gardens in Souchow, with its meandering sequences of obliquely approached... | |
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Planting, and say a Boy, that can tell an Hundred, may plant Walks of Trees in straight Lines, and overagainst one another, and to what Length and Extent he pleases. But their greatest Reach of Imagination is employed in contriving Figures, where the... 