The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, כרך 22Hovey and Company, 1856 |
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עמוד 110 - I am therefore persuaded, that the two opposite qualities of roughness, and of sudden variation, joined to that of irregularity, are the most efficient causes of the picturesque.
עמוד 321 - ... colour and size. Nor is it the least curious to notice that these slender and fragile structures, apparently not more substantial than the gossamer and flexible as a feather, still possess a tenacity and wiriness which allow the delicate leaf to be raised by the hand to the surface of the water without injury.
עמוד 437 - Great Nature scorns control : 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. . 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.
עמוד 439 - gainst the barren crag She lifts the pastured slope ; to distant hills Opposes neighboring shades ; and central oft Relieves the flatness of the lawn, or lake, With studded tuft, or island. So to poise Her objects mimic Art may oft attain. She rules the foreground ; she can swell or sink Its surface ; here her leafy screen oppose, And there withdraw : here part the varying greens, And crowd them there in one promiscuous gloom, As best befits the genius of the scene." — [Book II. The walks and avenues...
עמוד 227 - ... festival — the tomb — Thou hast thy part in each — thou stateliest flower ! Therefore with thy soft breath come floating by A thousand images of love and grief, Dreams filled with tokens of mortality, Deep thoughts of all things beautiful and brief.
עמוד 365 - OR, THE KITCHEN AND FRUIT GARDEN, with the best methods for their Cultivation ; together with hints upon Landscape and Flower Gardening; containing modes of culture and descriptions of the species and varieties of the Culinary Vegetables, Fruit Trees...
עמוד 227 - The bridal-day — the festival — the tomb — Thou hast thy part in each, thou stateliest flower ! Therefore with thy soft breath come floating by A thousand images of love or grief, Dreams, fill'd with tokens of mortality, Deep thoughts of all things beautiful and brief.
עמוד 393 - Down went many a trophy of old magnificence, court-yard, ornamented enclosure, foss, avenue, barbican, and every external muniment of battled wall and flanking tower, out of the midst of which the ancient dome rising high above all its characteristic accompaniments, and seemingly girt round by its appropriate defences, which again circled each other in their different gradations, looked, as it should, the queen and mistress of the surrounding country. It was thus that the huge old tower of...
עמוד 207 - has been called landscape gardening, perhaps he who gave it the title may explain : I can see no reason, unless it be the efficacy which it has shown in destroying landscapes, in which indeed it seems to be infallible, not one complete painter's composition being, I believe, to be found in any of the numerous and many of them beautiful and picturesque spots, which it has visited in different parts of this island.
עמוד 340 - There is no man of common taste who has not often lamented that confusion of expression which so frequently takes place, even in the most beautiful scenes of real nature, and which prevents him from indulging to the full the peculiar emotion which the scene itself is fitted to inspire.