On the Portraits of English Authors on GardeningWilson, 1830 - 221 pages |
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... Price ) , has " realized painting , " and enchained his readers to the rich scenes of nature ? Dr. Johnson calls portrait painting " that art which is employed in diffusing friendship , in reviving tender- ness , in quickening the ...
... Price ) , has " realized painting , " and enchained his readers to the rich scenes of nature ? Dr. Johnson calls portrait painting " that art which is employed in diffusing friendship , in reviving tender- ness , in quickening the ...
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... Price , pays a very high compliment to this ex- quisite poem , in p . 31 , vol . i . of his Essays , terming it full of the justest taste , and most brilliant imagery . † In the Earl of Harcourt's garden , at Nuneham , in Oxfordshire ...
... Price , pays a very high compliment to this ex- quisite poem , in p . 31 , vol . i . of his Essays , terming it full of the justest taste , and most brilliant imagery . † In the Earl of Harcourt's garden , at Nuneham , in Oxfordshire ...
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... Price , who must also have passed through France , to view ( with the eagerness with which he did view ) the rich and magnificently decorated gardens of Italy , " aided with the splendour and magnificence of art , " their ballustrades ...
... Price , who must also have passed through France , to view ( with the eagerness with which he did view ) the rich and magnificently decorated gardens of Italy , " aided with the splendour and magnificence of art , " their ballustrades ...
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... 1s . Davis . I believe the same gentleman also published , in 1765 , a Treatise " Of the Price of Wheat . " accompanied with Violets , growing under the hedges , ave- 54 called The Making of Fish Ponds, Breeding Fish, ...
... 1s . Davis . I believe the same gentleman also published , in 1765 , a Treatise " Of the Price of Wheat . " accompanied with Violets , growing under the hedges , ave- 54 called The Making of Fish Ponds, Breeding Fish, ...
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... Price observes of this latter painter , " that nature herself is hardly more soft and delicate in her most delicate produc- tions , than the copies of them by Van - Huysum . " Two flower pieces by this painter , sold at the Houghton ...
... Price observes of this latter painter , " that nature herself is hardly more soft and delicate in her most delicate produc- tions , than the copies of them by Van - Huysum . " Two flower pieces by this painter , sold at the Houghton ...
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Page 108 - I should prefer a firm religious belief to e,very other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of...
Page xxxi - If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 78 - The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
Page xxxi - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 119 - I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets. I observed indeed that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean.
Page 160 - Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die ('Twas even to thee), yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.
Page 120 - ... for my own part, though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy; and can, therefore, take a view of nature in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Page 112 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Page 21 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 116 - On this account our English gardens are not so entertaining to the fancy as those in France and Italy, where we see a large extent of ground covered over with an agreeable mixture of garden and forest, which represent every where an artificial rudeness, much more charming than that neatness and elegancy which we meet with in those of our own country.