includes "On modern gardening"H. G. Bohn, 1849 |
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עמוד 727
... plate ; but before his time was expired he felt the impulse of genius , and felt it directed him to painting , though ... plates for booksellers . See Nichols , & c . - W . ] force lay in expression , not in tints and chiaro PAINTERS IN ...
... plate ; but before his time was expired he felt the impulse of genius , and felt it directed him to painting , though ... plates for booksellers . See Nichols , & c . - W . ] force lay in expression , not in tints and chiaro PAINTERS IN ...
עמוד 728
... plates for several books ; and , which is extraordinary , no symptom of genius dawned in those plates . His Hudibras was the first of his works that marked him as a man above the common ; yet what made him then noticed now sur- prises ...
... plates for several books ; and , which is extraordinary , no symptom of genius dawned in those plates . His Hudibras was the first of his works that marked him as a man above the common ; yet what made him then noticed now sur- prises ...
עמוד 729
... plates . - W . ] 2 His principal assistants were - French engravers : Ravenet , Scotin , and Grignion - English : Sullivan and Baron . The plates said to be engraved by him- self only , are very freely , but not delicately finished ...
... plates . - W . ] 2 His principal assistants were - French engravers : Ravenet , Scotin , and Grignion - English : Sullivan and Baron . The plates said to be engraved by him- self only , are very freely , but not delicately finished ...
עמוד 738
... plate he used for his books . 3. His own head in a cap , oval frame , his pug dog , and a pallet with the line of beauty , & c . inscribed Gu- glielmus Hogarth . Se ipse pinxit et sculpsit , 1749. A square print.2 4. His own portrait ...
... plate he used for his books . 3. His own head in a cap , oval frame , his pug dog , and a pallet with the line of beauty , & c . inscribed Gu- glielmus Hogarth . Se ipse pinxit et sculpsit , 1749. A square print.2 4. His own portrait ...
עמוד 739
... Plate for books . 10. A foreign coat of arms , sup- porters a savage and angel . Ditto . 11. A griphon with a flag ... plates . 2 No. 22. Very rare.-D. 3 No. 24. Scarce , 101. Baker . - D . Se ipse pinx J. Thomson sculp MRWIS GCUPY . Q ...
... Plate for books . 10. A foreign coat of arms , sup- porters a savage and angel . Ditto . 11. A griphon with a flag ... plates . 2 No. 22. Very rare.-D. 3 No. 24. Scarce , 101. Baker . - D . Se ipse pinx J. Thomson sculp MRWIS GCUPY . Q ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 793 - 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...
עמוד 794 - 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.
עמוד 796 - This was Moor Park when I was acquainted with it, and the sweetest place, I think, that I have seen in my life, either before or since, at home or abroad...
עמוד 789 - 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...
עמוד 797 - It must have been a fine genius for gardening, that could have thought of forming such an unsightly hollow into so beautiful an area, and to have hit the eye with so uncommon and agreeable a scene as that which it is now wrought into.
עמוד 793 - How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold...
עמוד 880 - The Compleat Gentleman: Fashioning Him absolute in the most Necessary and Commendable Qualities concerning Mind or Body, that may be required in a Person of Honor.
עמוד 797 - ... imagination is employed in contriving figures, where the beauty shall be great, and strike the eye, but without any order or disposition of parts that shall be commonly or easily observed: and though we have hardly any notion of this sort of beauty, yet they have a particular word to express it, and where they find it hit their eye at first sight, they say the sharawadgi is fine or is admirable, or any such expression of esteem.
עמוד 911 - A Faithorne sculpsit is a charm can save From dull oblivion and a gaping grave.
עמוד 797 - Planting, and say a Boy, that can tell an Hundred, may plant Walks of Trees in straight Lines, and overagainst one another, and to what Length and Extent he pleases. But their greatest Reach of Imagination is employed in contriving Figures, where the Beauty shall be great, and strike the Eye, but without any Order or Disposition of Parts, that shall be commonly or easily observ'd.