...artificial Rudeness' found in France and Italy. 'Our British Gardeners, on the contrary', writes Addison, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our Trees rise in Cones, Globes, and Pyramids'. Disdaining the 'Neatness and Elegancy' of classical...

...people he knew as Chinese; and his account is a paraphrase of Temple. At the end he remarks: "They have a Word, it seems, in their Language, by which they express the particular Beauty" of the irregular garden.28 That word, unspoken, is sharawadgi; and Temple's quest is complete. The two...

...better calculated to display man's power over nature. 'Our British gardeners', wrote Addison in 1712, '...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 scissors upon every plant and...

..."They have a word, it seems, in their language," Addison writes without including the translated term, "by which they express the particular beauty of a...discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect." The goal of a garden or prospect as Addison explains in Spectator no. 417 (28 June 1712) is to awaken...

...Information stammte aus Temples Upon the Gardens ofEpicurus). Anders hingegen die englischen Barockgärten: Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it äs much äs possible. Our Trees rise in Cones, Globes, and Pyramids. We see the Marks of Scissors...

...correctness of taste which distinguished all he wrote, thus expressed himself: — " 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 scissars upon every plant and bush....

...an object, without inquiring into the particular causes and occasionsofit,^ Our British gardeners, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible.** He can bribe, but he is not able to seduce tt He can buy, but.he has not the power of gaining. tt lie...

...elegancy, which we meet with in those of our o\vn country." He goes on to say; " 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...

...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...