 The tricks of waterworks to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like a petticoat, were but the childish endeavours of fashion and novelty to reconcile greatness to what it had surfeited on. To crown...  includes "On modern gardening" - Page 7891849Full view - About this book
 | Mr. Marshall (William) - 1803 - 460 pages
...every im* provement that was made, was but a step farther ' from nature. The tricks of water-works to wet ' the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator,...crown these impotent displays ' of false taste, the sheers were applied to the * lovely wildness of form with which Nature has * distinguished each various... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...and every improvement that was made, was but a step farther from nature. The tricks of water-works to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator...greatness to what it had surfeited on. To crown these important displays uf false taste, the sheers were applied to the lovely wildness of form with which... | |
 | 1823 - 872 pages
...and every improvement that was made, was hut a step farther from nature» The tricks of waterworks to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator...surfeited on. To crown these impotent displays of fal«e taste, the sheers were applied to the lovely wildness of form with which nature has distinguished... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 pages
...out, to endeavour to recover it by raising large mounts of earth to peep over the walls of the garden. to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator,...crown these impotent displays of false taste, the sheers were applied to the lovely wildness of form with which nature has distinguished each various... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pages
...solitudes; and every improvement that was made was but a step farther from nature. The tricks of water-works to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator;...fashion and novelty to reconcile greatness to what it surfeited on. To crown these impotent displays of false taste, the shears were applied to the lovely... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...petticoat, were but the childish endeavours of fashion and novelty to reconcile greatness to what it surfeited on. To crown these impotent displays of...nature has distinguished each various species of tree and shrub. The venerable oak, the romantic beech, the useful elm, even the aspiring circuit of the... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 400 pages
...solitudes ; and every improvement that was made was but a step further from nature. The trick of waterworks to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator,...crown these impotent displays of false taste, the sheers were applied to the lovely wildness of form with which nature has distinguished each various... | |
 | James Raine - 1833 - 502 pages
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 | John Grundy (of Hampton Court.) - 1844 - 74 pages
...became not only the fashion in England, but all over the continent. For many years, in these Gardens, the shears were applied to the lovely wildness of...Nature has distinguished each various species of tree and shrub. The compass and square were of more use in plantations than the nurseryman, and the hollies... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 pages
...and every improvement that was made, was but a step farther from nature. The tricks of water- works2 to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator,...false taste, the shears were applied to the lovely wüdness of form with which nature has distinguished each various species of tree 1 It was not uncommon,... | |
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