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" ... unadorned nature, is too sudden a transition, and wants that sort of gradation and congruity, which, except in particular cases, is so necessary in all that is to please the eye and the mind. Many years are elapsed since I was in Italy, but the... "
The Book of the Garden - Page 605
by Charles McIntosh - 1853 - 776 pages
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Essays on the picturesque, Volume 2

sir Uvedale Price (bart.) - 1810 - 446 pages
...should give spirit and variety, to the uniform, though grand and touching character of simplicity. Where architecture, even of the simplest kind, is employed...many instances require the accompaniments of art; for to go at once from art to simple unadorned nature, is. too sudden a transition, and wants that...
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Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the ..., Volume 2

Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 460 pages
...give spirit and variety,; to the uniform, though grand and' touching character of simplicity. Where architecture, even of the simplest kind, is employed...many instances require the accompaniments of art; for to go at once from art to simple unadorned nature, is too sudden a transition, aiid wants that...
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Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the ..., Volume 2

Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 452 pages
...should give spirit and variety, to the uniform, though grand and touching character of simplicity. Where architecture, even of the simplest kind, is employed...many instances require the accompaniments of art; for to go at once from art to simple unadorned nature, is too sudden a transition, and wants that sort...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 73

England - 1853 - 796 pages
...where their garden begins, or where it terminates. Sir Uvedale Price, in Esiays on the Picturctquc, remarks — 'What appears to me the great defect of...details, the more symmetrical and highly adorned with worka of art the garden around it should be." This is well, and, we may add, courageously said. There...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 73

England - 1853 - 788 pages
...sense, is exactly what has given them their greatest reputation — an affectation of simplicity, or mere nature — a desire of banishing all embellishments...The more magnificent the mansion, and the richer it ig in architectural details, the more symmetrical and highly adorned with works of art the garden around...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 608 pages
...Walpole : — • " Where architecture even of the simplest kind is employed on the dwellings of men, art must be manifest ; and all artificial objects...many instances require, the accompaniments of Art ; for to go at once from art to simple and unadorned Nature is too sudden a transition, and wants that...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 572 pages
...with Walpole : — " Where architecture even of the simplest kind is employed on the dwellings of men, art must be manifest ; and all artificial objects'...many instances require, the accompaniments of Art ; for to go at once from art to simple and unadorned Nature is too sudden a transition, and wants that...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 570 pages
...simplest kind is employed on the dwellings of men, art must be manifest ; and all artificial object* may certainly admit, and in many instances require, the accompaniments of Art ; for to go at once from art to simple and unadorned Nature is too sudden a transition, and wants that...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 144

Literature - 1880 - 862 pages
...be ranked with White of Selborne : — Where architecture, even of the simplest kind, is employed on the dwellings of man, art must be manifest ; and all...many instances require, the accompaniments of art ; for to go at once from art to simple and unadorned nature is too sudden a transition, and wants that...
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