| Samuel Sloan - 1870 - 378 Seiten
...and he was painter enough to feel the charms of landscape. He was also bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...great system from the twilight of imperfect essays ; for although he realized the compositions of Poussin and Claude, the greatest masters in classic... | |
| Popular encyclopedia - 1875 - 532 Seiten
...Walpole he was painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, suiliciently bold and opinionative to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden. The great principles on which he worked were perspective, light, and shade. Groups of trees broke a... | |
| Popular encyclopedia - 1879 - 528 Seiten
...to taste the charms of landscape, sufficiently bold and opinionative to dare and to dictate, and bom with a genius to strike out a great system from the...leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden. The great principles on which he worked were perspective, light, and shade. Groups of trees broke a... | |
| Henry Arthur Bright - 1881 - 120 Seiten
...express their surprise at rinding a sudden and nnperceived check to their walks." He adds that Kent " leaped the fence, and saw that all Nature was a garden." he admits "architectural ornaments" in the garden round the house. He speaks, too, with regret of having... | |
| William Carew Hazlitt - 1887 - 280 Seiten
...characterises him as "painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...from the twilight of imperfect essays." " He leaped i the fence," says our author, " and saw that all nature \ was a garden." •« From Walpole's account... | |
| 1888 - 920 Seiten
...language, Kent " was painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...great system from the twilight of imperfect essays." In short, he was the first in English gardening to vindicate the natural against the artificial Banishing... | |
| Sabine Baring-Gould - 1890 - 386 Seiten
...moment appeared Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...great system from the twilight of imperfect essays." The man Kent deserved the gallows much more than many who have been hung. No one who pretended to be... | |
| Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - 1895 - 372 Seiten
...Kent had effected, he summed up his work in a happy phrase, which has almost become proverbial : ' He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.' The discovery led the way to the modern landscape gardening, and to the destruction of the old English... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 478 Seiten
...forest deep." Walpole says that Kent's "ruling principle was that nature abhors a straight line." Kent "leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden....and valley, changing imperceptibly into each other . . . and remarked how loose groves crowned an easy eminence with happy ornament. . . The great principles... | |
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