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Page 47 - ... loses itself in the next ; or a few scattered trees drop in a more distant succession from the one to the other. The intervals, winding here like a glade, and widening there into broader openings, differ in extent, in figure, and direction; but all the groupes, the lines, and the intervals are collected together into large general clumps, each of which is at the same time both compact and free, identical and various. The whole is a place wherein to tarry with secure delight, or saunter with perpetual...
Page 11 - The insipidity of a flat is not taken away by a fewscattered hillocks; a continuation of uneven ground can alone give the idea of inequality. A large, deep, abrupt break, among easy swells and falls, seems at best but a piece left unfinished, and which ought to have been softened ; it is not more natural, because it is more rude. On the other hand, a small fine polished form, in the midst of...
Page 108 - Truckles (the remains perhaps of ancient British navigation), which the least motion will overset, and the slightest touch may destroy. All the employments of the people seem to require either exertion or caution ; and the ideas of force or of danger which attend them, give to the scene an animation unknown to a solitary, though perfectly compatible with the wildest romantic situation.
Page 110 - ... those below ; sometimes it rushes through the several openings between them, sometimes it drops gently down; and at other times it is driven back by the obstruction, and turns into an eddy. " In one particular spot, the...
Page 1 - ... subject for taste; and being released now from the restraints of regularity, and enlarged beyond the purposes of domestic convenience, the most beautiful, the most simple, the most noble scenes of nature are all within its province: for it is no longer confined to the spots from which it borrows its name, but regulates...
Page 186 - ... and the extent and the height of the hanging wood give an air of grandeur to the whole. An eafy winding defcent leads from the Gothic building to the lake, and a broad walk is...
Page 136 - ... termini, are usual appendages to a considerable edifice ; as such, they may attend the mansion, and trespass a little upon the garden, provided they are not carried so far into it as to lose their connection with the structure. The platform and the road are also appurtenances to the house ; all these may therefore be adapted to its form, and the environs will thereby acquire a degree of regularity ; but to give it to the objects of nature, only on account of their proximity to others which are...
Page 129 - ... with ease to irregularity of ground, and their disorder is improved by it; they may be intimately blended with trees and with thickets, and the interruption is an advantage; for imperfection and obscurity are their properties; and to carry the imagination to something greater than is seen, their effect.
Page 136 - ... of the building. The road which leads up to the door may go off from it in an equal angle, so that the two sides shall exactly correspond ; and certain ornaments, though detached, are yet rather within the province of architecture, than of gardening ; works of sculpture are not, like buildings, objects familiar in scenes of cultivated nature ; but vases, statues, and termini, are usual appendages to a considerable edifice ; as such they may attend the mansion and trespass a little upon the garden,...
Page 184 - ... as great, as romantic a fcene, as any of thofe which we rarely fee but always behold with admiration, the work of nature alone, matured by the growth of ages. But Paine's Hill is all a new creation ; and a boldnefs of deiign, and a happinefs of execution, attend the wonderful efforts which art has there made to rival nature.