The Art of Landscape GardeningHoughton Mifflin, 1907 - 252 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
ancient appear appendages architecture artificial Attingham avenue banks beauty Berkshire betwixt Brentry Buckinghamshire building castle cattle character circumstances colours comfort considered contrast convenience cottage distance drive Dyrham Park effect expedient extent farm fence flower-garden Francis Pym frequently front Gothic Gothic architecture Grecian green ground habitation Hall Herefordshire hill Honourable idea imitate improvement instance kitchen-garden lake landscape gardening Langley Park lawn light Livermere lofty magnificence mansion Milton Abbey modern natural shape Nottinghamshire object of beauty objects observed occasionally ornament outline painter painting palace park perhaps picture picturesque plantation planted PLATE pleasing pleasure-ground principles produce proportion Purley Red Book removed Repton river River Terne road scene scenery seen shadow shew single trees situation straight line style Sufton Court surface surrounding symmetry taste Tatton Park Thoresby tion valley variety villa walk Wembly Wentworth House whole wood
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עמוד 44 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
עמוד 99 - Wove, in mosaic mode of many a curl, Around the figur'd carpet of the lawn. Hence too deformities of harder cure : The terras mound uplifted ; the long line Deep delv'd of flat canal ; and all that toil, Misled by tasteless fashion, could achieve To mar fair Nature's lineaments divine.
עמוד 55 - Of Nature's various scenes the painter culls That for his fav'rite theme, where the fair whole Is broken into ample parts, and bold ; Where to the eye three well-mark'd distances Spread their peculiar colouring.
עמוד 3 - To improve the scenery of a country, and to display its native beauties with advantage, is an Art which originated in England, and has therefore been called English Gardening...
עמוד 238 - ... to his memory to record, that, if he was superior to all in what related to his own peculiar profession, he was inferior to none in what related to the comfort, convenience, taste, and propriety of design, in the several mansions and other buildings which he planned.
עמוד 43 - Landscape Gardening consists in the four following requisites : First, it must display the Natural beauties, and hide the natural defects of every situation. Secondly, it should give the appearance of extent and freedom, by carefully disguising or hiding the boundary. Thirdly, it must studiously conceal every interference of art, however expensive, by which the Scenery is improved ; making the whole appear the production of Nature only ; and fourthly, all objects of mere convenience...
עמוד 237 - ... the pursuit of general beauty ; to realize whatever the fancy of the painter has imagined, and to create a scenery, more pure, more harmonious, and more expressive, than any that is to be found in nature itself.
עמוד 61 - ... every individual who possesses anything, whether it be mental endowments, or power, or property, obtains respect in proportion as his possessions are known, provided he does not too vainly boast of them ; and it is the sordid miser only who enjoys for himself alone, wishing the world to be ignorant of his wealth. The pleasure of appropriation...
עמוד 99 - La Nature fuit les lieux frequentes, c'est au sommet des montagnes, au fond des forets, dans les isles desertes, qu'elle etale ses charmes les plus touchants, ceux qui 1'aiment et ne peuvent Taller chercher si loin, sont rednits a, lui faire violence, et a la forcer en quelque sorte a venir habiter parmi eux, et tout cela ne peut se faire sans un peu d'illusion.
עמוד 7 - All rational improvement of grounds is necessarily founded on a due attention to the CHARACTER and SITUATION of the place to be improved : the former teaches what is advisable, the latter what is possible to be done.