 Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen; to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased,...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 118edited by - 1782Full view - About this book
 | Flower garden - 1852 - 116 pages
...and the admiration of the skilful — a place to be visited by travellers and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and...view — to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen — to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...great, and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and...the view ; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen; to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to thicken... | |
 | William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 324 pages
...of the skilful; a place to be visited by travellers and copied by designers." " Whether," he adds, " to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place...bench at every turn where there is an object to catch a view ; to make water run where it will be heard, and stagnate where it will be seen ; to leave intervals... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1856 - 454 pages
...admiration of the skilful, — a place to be visited by travellers and copied by designers. Whether to pknt a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench...view, — to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen, — to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 pages
...great and the admiration of the skillful ; a place to be visited by travelers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and...there is an object to catch the view; to make water rim where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen ; to leave intervals where the eye... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1857 - 448 pages
...and the admiration of the skilful, — a place to be visited by travellers and copied by' designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and...view, — to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen, — to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to... | |
 | Fruit-culture - 1858 - 722 pages
...fully a century since Johnson remarked of Shenstone — Whether " to plant a walk in undulating curves, to place a bench at every turn where there is an object...the view, to make water run where it will be heard and to stagnate where it will be seen, to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to thicken... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1914 - 872 pages
...sir, here we are in Mr. Shenstone's famous grounds ; but, as I was saying to you in the postchaise, whether to plant a walk in undulating curves and to place a bench at every turn REYNOLDS. Well, sir, as the bench is here and the day hot, let's utilise it. (He sits down.) JOHNSON.... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1860 - 438 pages
...and the admiration of the skilful, — a place to be visited by travellers and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bencli at every turn where there is an object to catch the view, — to maks water run where it will... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...great and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and...the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen ; to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to thicken... | |
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