 | Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - 1854 - 254 Seiten
...designs for landscape-gardening. The following testimony of Walpole is striking : — VOL. n. - 4 " He leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden. He felt the delicious contrast of hill and valley changing imperceptibly into each other, tasted the... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 Seiten
...appeared Kent, painter and poet enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden (a). He felt the delicious contrast of hill and valley changing imperceptibly into each other, tasted... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 Seiten
...observes, " he was painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opiniative to dare and dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays." But this is the extravagant praise of a patron. in the natural taste, agreeing not ill with the little... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Missouri State Horticultural Society - 1884 - 438 Seiten
...Since the days of Kent, Horticulture has made wonderful advances. But he led the way, and it was he who saw that all nature was a garden. The great principles...which he worked were perspective, light and shade. He realized the compositions of the great masters in painting. Its divisions are many, and each of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Walter Howe - 1890 - 332 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...leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden. He felt the delicious contrast of hill and valley changing imperceptibly into each other, tasted the... | |
 | 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... | |
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Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden. 
