 | Mrs. Evelyn Cecil - 1896 - 436 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... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 508 Seiten
...appeared Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great...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... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 478 Seiten
...appeared Kent ; painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and dictate, and born with a genius to strike out a great...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... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 488 Seiten
...enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and dictate, and bora with a genius to strike out a great system from the...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... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 472 Seiten
...enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and dictate, and bora with a genius to strike out a great system from the...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... | |
 | Maud Going - 1903 - 384 Seiten
...thrown open to the public gaze. It was said of Kent, the designer who chiefly worked the change, that he "leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden." Then the horse-chestnut was in demand for English gardens, and before the revolution it was planted... | |
 | M. R. Gloag - 1906 - 408 Seiten
...one of the worst offenders in the destruction of old Gardens. In the amusing language of Wai pole, "he leaped the fence and saw that all Nature was a Garden." Lovers of old Gardens would have had great cause for thankfulness had he resisted his impulse to leap... | |
 | Charles Holme - 1907 - 208 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 men referred to in this extract, Bridgman and Kent, played a considerable part in the development... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1909 - 452 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." Kent's dominating principle, " Study Nature and follow her laws," marked the completeness of his break... | |
 | Ethel Rolt-Wheeler - 1910 - 416 Seiten
..."capital stroke" of landscape gardening. Horace Walpole says of the famous landscape gardener Kent : " He leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden." Even the gardens of Vauxhall, which Fanny Burney complains of as being too formal, were separated by... | |
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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. 
