| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 538 pages
...to fpread in various degrees, and in various directions, and then accident will produce unthought of varieties and beauties, without injuring the general...prevent the operation of accident ; and thence the famcncfs and heavinsfs of the outfides of clumps, and of all clofe plantations. The old gardeners of... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 540 pages
...to fprcad in various degrees, and in various dire&ions, and then accident will produce unthought of varieties and beauties, without injuring the general...allowed to fpread in one direction only, you in a great rneafure prevent the operation of accident ; and thence the famenefs and heaviuefs of the outfides... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 420 pages
...muft be remembered, that what would be abfurd in many other arts (as for inftance, in architecture) is proper in your's, where vegetation is the chief...The En veut on augmenter le nombre dans une nation? S^u'on otferve les nrnyens •lont fe fert le hazard pour infpirer aux hommes le defir de s'illuftrer.... | |
| Susanne Fusso, Priscilla Meyer - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 310 pages
...which it works is living vegetation: "Trees and plants of every kind . . . should have room to spread in various degrees, and in various directions, and...varieties and beauties, without injuring the general design" (111:36). It is clear from the description of Pliushkin's garden that when nature is allowed... | |
| Susanne Fusso - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 224 pages
...which it works is living vegetation: "Trees and plants of every kind . . . should have room to spread in various degrees, and in various directions, and...varieties and beauties, without injuring the general design" (3: 36). It is clear from the description of Pliushkin's garden that when nature is allowed... | |
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