The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton, Esq: Being His Entire Works on These Subjectseditor, and sold, 1840 - 619 Seiten |
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The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey ... Humphry Repton,John Claudius Loudon Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Seite 534 - For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. "For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
Seite 85 - 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.
Seite 521 - To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot, In all, let Nature never be forgot...
Seite 112 - Simplicity; or that disposition of objects which, without exposing all of them equally to view at once, may lead the eye to each by an easy gradation, without flutter, confusion, or perplexity.
Seite 39 - All rational improvement of grounds is, necessarily, founded on a due attention to the character and situation of the place to be improved...
Seite 29 - 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...
Seite 116 - ... beauty : with this view, gravel walks and neat mown lawns, and in some situations, straight alleys, fountains, terraces, and for aught I know, parterres and cut hedges are in perfect good taste, and infinitely more conformable to the principles which form the basis of our pleasure in these instances, than the docks, and thistles, and litter and disorder, that may make a much better figure in a picture.
Seite 96 - Play thro' the varied canvass : these transplant Again on Nature ; take thy plastic spade, It is thy pencil ; take thy seeds, thy plants, They are thy colours ; and by these repay With interest every charm she lent thy art.
Seite 164 - Deep delv'd of flat canal ; and all that toil, Misled by tasteless fashion, could achieve To mar fair Nature's lineaments divine.