Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy,... The Age of Pope (1700-1744). - Page 98by John Dennis - 1899 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface,...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an... | |
| William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 318 pages
...— proceeded to arrange, combine, and embellish them. " From this time," says Johnson, " he began to point his prospects, to diversify his surface,...be visited by travellers and copied by designers." " Whether," he adds, " to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...ambition of rural elegance: he began from this time to point liis prospects, to diversify his surface, lo entangle his walks, and to wind his waters; which...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers." But all this was attended with great expense. He spent his estate in adorning it, and his death, which... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pages
...his surface, to entangle his walks and to wind his waters," he did all this with such judgment and fancy as " made his little domain the envy of the...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers." Mason, in his English Garden, a poem once greatly admired, but now rarely read, and never perhaps with... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...excited his delight in real pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance: he began from tliis time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface,...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers." But all this was attended with great expense. He spent his estate in adorning it, and his death, wliich... | |
| 1856 - 586 pages
...diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great...be visited by travellers and copied by designers." But what was the consequence ? He devoted so much of his means to external embellishment that the house... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...such judgment and such fancy, !is made his little domain the envy of the great, and the mimiration of the skilful; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers." But all this was attended with great expense. He spent hi* estr.Te in adorning it. and his death, which... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...excited his delight in reul pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from tiiis time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface,...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers." But all this was attended with great expense. He spent his estate in adorning it and his death, which... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...to wind his waters ; which he did with sucli jiidgmert and such fancy, as made his little domain ihe envy of the great, and the admiration of the skilful;...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers." But all this was attended with great expense. He spent his estate in adorning it, and his death, which... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...to wind his waters ; which he did with Buch judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain die envy of the. great, and the admiration of the skilful;...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers." But all this was attended witli great expense. He spent his estate in adorning it, and his death, which... | |
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