 When the custom of making square gardens enclosed with walls was thus established, to the exclusion of nature and prospect, pomp and solitude combined to call for something that might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Fountains...  The Antiquary - Page 1081890Full view - About this book
 | Mr. Marshall (William) - 1803 - 460 pages
...simple *'fountain of reason. / ' WHEN the custom of making square gardens ' inclosed with walls was thus established, to the *• exclusion of nature and prospect*,...something that ' might enrich and enliven the insipid and unani1 mated partition. Fountains, first invented for ' use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw... | |
 | 1823
...the simple fountain of reason. When the custom of making square gardens enclosed with walle was thus established to the exclusion of nature and prospect,...something that might enrich and enliven the insipid and iinanimuted partition. Fountains, first invented for use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw... | |
 | 1827 - 400 pages
...violis odoratus ;" and the Potagerie or kitchen garden, " hortus alius pinguis et rusticus.''] tude combined to call for something that might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Fountains, first invented for use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw out of the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pages
...nature and prospect were thus excluded, by the custom of making square gardens enclosed with walls, pomp and solitude combined to call for something that...might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Fountains, first invented for use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw out of sight,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 406 pages
...nature and prospect were thus excluded, by the custom of making square gardens enclosed with walls, pomp and solitude combined to call for something that might enrich and enliven the insipid and unani mated partition. Fountains, first invented for use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw... | |
 | Irvin Eller - 1841 - 450 pages
...Pride and a desire of privacy having enclosed with walls the demesnes of royal and noble persons ; pomp and solitude combined to call for something that...might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Walpole, to whose Essay on Modern Gardening, I am chiefly indebted for the materials of... | |
 | Irvin Eller - 1841 - 458 pages
...Pride and a desire of privacy having enclosed with walls the demesnes of royal and noble persons ; pomp and solitude combined to call for something that...might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Walpole, to whose Essay on Modern Gardening, I am chiefly indebted for the materials of... | |
 | 1849 - 466 pages
...square gardens enclosed with walls was thus established, to the exclusion of nature and prospect, 1 pomp and solitude combined to call for something that...might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Fountains, first invented for use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw out of the... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 pages
...square gardens enclosed with walls was thus established, to the exclusion of nature and prospect,1 pomp and solitude combined to call for something that...might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Fountains, first invented for use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw out of the... | |
 | 1890 - 324 pages
...traces of gardens. They exhibit small, square enclosures, formed by trellis-work and espaliers, and are regularly ornamented with vases, flowers, and figures....something that might enrich and enliven the insipid and unani mated enclosure. Fountains first invented for use which grandeur loves to disguise received embellishment... | |
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