They have a word, it seems, in their language, by which they express the particular beauty of a plantation that thus strikes the imagination at first sight, without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect. The British Essayists;: Spectator - الصفحة 149بواسطة Alexander Chalmers - 1808عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 864
...works of this nature, and therefore always conceal the art by which they direct themselves. They have egnant in them ; They swell, they press their beams upon me still. Wilt thou not speak? Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 860
...works of this nature, and therefore always conceal the art by which they direct themselves. They have a word, it seems, in their language, by which they...nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and... | |
| Charles Henry Curtis, W. Gibson - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 170
...works of this nature, and therefore always conceal the art by which they direct themselves. They have a word, it seems, in their language, by which they...nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and... | |
| Jennie Day Haines - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 96
...way in certain parts of it. This takes time, but the result is eminently delightful. George Milner. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of...nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and... | |
| M. R. Gloag - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...attack in the Spectator, saying, "In laying out a Garden we are to copy Nature as much as possible. Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of...Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible." Pope, the most artificial and the wittiest of writers, soon followed suit in the Guardian, and he lashed... | |
| 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...and in Scotland. As illustrating the second proposition, after remarking that. British gardeners, " instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible," and that "our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids," he declares his own liking for a tree grown... | |
| Samuel Parsons - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...works of this nature, and therefore always conceal the art by which they direct themselves. They have a word, it seems, in their language by which they...discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect. " Montesquieu in his Essay on Taste has this to say: "It is then the pleasure which an object gives... | |
| C. E. de Haas - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...that neatness and elegancy which we meet with in those of our own country.' ' And he further observes: 'Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of...nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissars upon every plant and... | |
| C. E. de Haas - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...that neatness and elegancy which we meet with in those of our own country.' * And he further observes: 'Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of...nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissars upon every plant and... | |
| 1924 - عدد الصفحات: 970
...trivialities of eighteenth century gardening as the Spectator denounces (No. 414) ? — Our British gardeners, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our Trees rise in Cones, Globes and Pyramids. We see the marks of the Scissars upon every Plant and... | |
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