 | William Gilpin - 1801 - 322 pages
...nature est ingrate, nos efforts seront vains: elle — • • — scorns controul ; she will not hear One beauty foreign to the spot, or soil, She gives thee to adorn: 'tis thine alone To mend , not change , her featurcs — * Le succès des rochers de Mr. Shenstone tient surtout à ce... | |
 | Mr. Marshall (William) - 1803 - 460 pages
...sacrifice its native beauties to the arbitrary laws of landscape painting. Great Nature scorns controul; she will not bear One beauty foreign to the spot or...soil She gives thee to adorn: 'Tis thine alone To mend,, not change her features. MASON. IN a picture bounded by its frame, a perfect landscape is looked... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 pages
...by the sentiments which a chaste fancy reflects ou a feeling heart. Great Nature scorns controul ; she will not bear One beauty foreign to the spot or...soil She gives thee to adorn : Tis thine alone To mend, not change, her features. Bat in the gardens I have before mentioned, every point of view raises... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 524 pages
...learn to rein, O youth ! whose skill essays the arduous task, That skill within the limit she allows. Great Nature scorns control : she will not bear One beauty foreign to the spot or soil 75 She gives thee to adorn : 'tis thine alone To mend, not change her features. Does her hand Stretch... | |
 | William Mason - 1811 - 520 pages
...learn to rein, O youth ! whose skill essays the arduous task, That skill within the limit she allows. Great Nature scorns control : she will not bear One beauty foreign to the spot or soil 75 She gives thee to adorn : 'tis thine alone To mend, not change her features. Does her hand Stretch... | |
 | John Evans (M. D.) - 1806 - 332 pages
...him to slumber] See ADDITIONAL NOTE I1J. 47. - - - mimic pageantry] " Great nature scorns controul ; she will not bear " One beauty foreign to the spot or soil " She gives thec to adorn." — MASON. While ocean's conchs adorn an inland grot, Or stands, in shape grotesque,... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...flowers ? But learn to rein Tby skill within the limits she allows; Great Nature acorns controul ; she will not bear One beauty foreign to the spot or soil. Mason's Englitk Garden. Let us distinguish, too, between gardens and public walks ; between a nobleman's... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1815 - 572 pages
...flowers ? But learn to rein Thy skill within the limits she allows ; Great Nature scorns controul; she will not bear One beauty foreign to the spot or soil. Mason's English Garden. ' Let us distinguish, too, between gardens and public walks; between a nobleman's... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1819 - 410 pages
...sentiments which a chaste fancy reflects on a fceling heart. Great Nature scorns control ; she wi|l not bear One beauty foreign to the spot or soil She gives thce to adorn : 'Tis thine alone To mend, not change, her features. But in the gardens I have before... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...learn to rein, O youth! whose skill essays the arduous task, That skill within the limit she allows. Great Nature scorns control : she will not bear One...soil She gives thee to adorn : 'tis thine alone To mend, not change her features. Does her hand Stretch forth a level lawn? Ah, hope not thou To lift... | |
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tis thine alone To mend, not change her features. Does her hand Stretch forth a level lawn? Ah, hope not thou To lift the mountain there. Do mountains frown Around? Ah, wish not there the level lawn. Yet she permits thy art, discreetly used, To smooth... 
