... the intricacy of the woods and various lodges buried in covert might conceal her actual habitation. It is more extraordinary that having so long ago stumbled on the principle of modern gardening, we should have persisted in retaining its reverse,... Essay on Modern Gardening - Page 25by Horace Walpole - 1904 - 94 pagesFull view - About this book
| History - 1781 - 732 pages
...ft» long ago Humbled on the principle of modern gardening, we JhouJd have perfiilcd in retaining irs reverfe, fymmetrical and unnatural gardens. That parks...countries, Hentzner, who travelled over great part erf Europe, leads us to fuppofe, by obferving that they were common in England. In France they retain... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1785 - 698 pages
...extraordinary that having fo long ago ftumbled on the principle of modern gardening, we ftiould have perfiiied in retaining its reverfe, fymmetrical and unnatural gardens. That parks were rare in otherc ountries, Hentziicr, who travel* Drayton, in a note to his Epiftle of RofamonJ, fays, her labyrinth... | |
| Horace Walpole, George Vertue - Gardening - 1786 - 360 pages
...more extraordinary that having fo long ago Humbled' on the principle of modern gardening, we fhould have perfifted in retaining its reverfe, fymmetrical...countries, Hentzner, who travelled over great part x>f Europe, leads us to fuppofe, by obfcrving that they were common in England. In France they retain... | |
| History - 1788 - 734 pages
...principle of modern gardening, we fhould have perfifted in retaining its reverfe, fyrrtmetrical anil unnatural gardens. That parks were rare in other countries,...England. In France they retain the name, but nothing it more different both in compafs and difpofition. Their parks are ufually fquare or ob'iong ¡nclofures... | |
| English literature - 1782 - 682 pages
...that having fo long ago ftumbled on the principle of modern gardening, we fliotild have per« lifted in retaining its reverfe, fymmetrical and unnatural...countries, Hentzner, who travelled over great part of Kurope, leads us to fuppole, by obferving that they were common in England. In France they retain the... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - Agriculture - 1796 - 460 pages
...ftumbled on the principle of modern garden' ing, we fhould have perfifted in retaining its re' verfe, fymmetrical and unnatural gardens. That * parks were...travelled over great part of Europe, leads us - 'to * to fuppofe, by obferving that they were com* mon in England. In France they retain the * name, but... | |
| William Marshall - 1796 - 486 pages
...ftumbled on the principle of modern garden' ing, we fhould have perfifted in retaining rts re' verfe, fymmetrical and unnatural gardens. That ' parks were...travelled over great part of Europe, leads us ' to k to fuppofe, by obferving that they were com' mon in England. In France they retain the * name, but... | |
| Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1803 - 460 pages
...intri' cacy of the woods and various Iddges buried in ' covert might conceal her actual habitation. * parks were rare in other countries, Hentzner, ' who travelled over great part of Europe, leads us ' IT is more extraordinary that having so long ' ago stumbled on the principle of modern gardeq' ing,... | |
| 1808 - 408 pages
...on the principle of modern gardening, we should have persisted in retaining its reverse, symmetrical and unnatural gardens. That parks were rare in other...countries, Hentzner, who travelled over great part of Eurojir, leads us to suppose, by observing that they were common in England. In France they retain... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...on the principle of modern gardening, we should have persisted in retaining its reverse, symmetrical and unnatural gardens. That parks were rare in other...who travelled over great part of Europe, leads us to suppose, by observing that they were common in England. In France they retain the name, but nothing... | |
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