 But I should hardly advise any of these attempts in the figure of gardens among us ; they are adventures of too hard achievement for any common hands ; and though there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail,...  Essay on Modern Gardening - עמוד 43מאת Horace Walpole - 1904 - 94 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 772 דפים
...of thefe attempts in the Sgnrc of parder J among us; they are adventures of tro hard a*.chievcmer.t for any common hands ; and though' there may be more honour if they fncceed well, yet there is more diflionour if the*y fail, and it i» twenty to one they will; whereas... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 דפים
...thought favourably of it, ' but,' he says, ' I should hardly advise any of these attempts in the figure of gardens among us; they are adventures of too hard achievement for any common heads ; and though there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 דפים
...thought favourably of it, ' but,' he says, ' I should hardly advise any of these attempts in the figure of gardens among us; they are adventures of too hard achievement for any common heads ; and though there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they... | |
 | 1819 - 630 דפים
...thoughtfavourably of it, ' but,' he says, ' I should hardly advise any of these attempts in the figure of gardens among us ; they are adventures of too hard achievement for any common heads ; -and though there tnay be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if... | |
 | Sir William Temple - 1821 - 390 דפים
...this kind ; that is, without order. But I should hardly advise any of these attempts in the figure of gardens among us ; they are adventures of too hard...hands ; and though there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will ; whereas,... | |
 | 1821 - 384 דפים
...common hands ; and though there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will ; whereas, in regular figures, it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults. The picture I hare met with in some relations... | |
 | 1823 - 872 דפים
...admirable, or any such expression of esteem : but I should hardly advise any of these attempts in the figure of gardens among us ; they are adventures of too hard...hands ; and though there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will , whereas... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 דפים
...any of these attempts in the figure of gardens among us, they are adventures of too hard atchievemeut for any common hands ; and though there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will ; whereas... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 דפים
...esteem, but I should hardly advise any of these attempts iu the figure of gardens among us ; they arc adventures of too hard achievement for any common...hands ; and though "there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will ; whereas... | |
 | 1849 - 466 דפים
...esteem, but I should hardly advise any of these attempts in the figure of gardens among us; they arc adventures of too hard achievement for any common hands; and though there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will; whereas... | |
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