On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise, 1권W. Bulmer, 1803 - 454페이지 |
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acorns acres appear artist bank beautiful beds Beech boughs cascade Chepstow cicatrized colour coppice cultivated deciduous distance ditch drills effect embellished ENVILLE expence feet fence fibres Firs Fisherwick forest garden give Gloucestershire ground groves Hagley Hedge HEDGEROW height hills HIMLEY hole Holly idea improved inches inclosure land landscape Larch lawn layer Leasowes manner ment method MINUTE mold mountain natural nursery object ornament park parterre Persfield plantations planter plow practice principal proper pruning purpose quicksets quincunx raised rendered rience rill rise river roots rows RURAL scene scenery season seedling plants seeds seen shew ship timber shoots shrubery shrubs side single trees situation skreens soil sowing spade species stand stem Stourhead Stowe substratum sufficient surface taken taste Taymouth temporary fence terrace throw timber timber trees transplanted trees and shrubs trench underwood valley walk wanted weeds whole WOODLANDS
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213 페이지 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
212 페이지 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrown'd the noontide bowers. Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view...
217 페이지 - It lies on the side of a hill (upon which the house stands), but not very steep. The length of the house, where the best rooms and of most use or pleasure are, lies upon the breadth of the garden; the great parlour...
212 페이지 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Water'd the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears ; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account...
219 페이지 - ... shall yet, upon the whole, be very agreeable. Something of this I have seen in some places, but heard more of it from others who have lived much among the Chineses ; a people, whose way of thinking seems to lie as wide of ours in Europe, as their country does.
207 페이지 - 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 these impotent displays of false taste, the...
227 페이지 - At that moment appeared Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays.
231 페이지 - I do not know whether the disposition of the garden at Rousham, laid out for General Dormer, and in my opinion the most engaging of all Kent's works, was not planned on the model of Mr. POPE'S, at least in the opening and retiring
249 페이지 - The bosom of the mountains spreading here into a broad basin, discovers in the midst Grasmere Water ; its margin is hollowed into small bays, with bold eminences, some of rock, some of soft turf, that half conceal and vary the figure of the little lake they command...
220 페이지 - European gardens are formally uniform and varied; but with regard to nature it seems as much avoided as in the squares and oblongs and straight lines of our ancestors.