| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 páginas
...vindicating the paltry imitations of the Dutch, who clipped yews into monsters of every species aud description, and relieved them with the painted wooden...acknowledged that there exist gardens, the work of London, Wise, and such persons as laid out ground in the Dutch taste, which would be much better subjects... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 páginas
...account, be construed as vindicating the paltry imitations of the Dutch, who clipped yews into monsters ot every species and description, and relieved them with...anomalies have fallen into general disuse, it must be acknow-1 ledged that there exist gardens, the work of Loudou, Wise, and such persons as laid out ground... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 páginas
...owners, silent and snugly smoking at the end of the paltry walk of every Lust-huys. This topiariun art, as it was called, came into England with King...acknowledged that there exist gardens, the work of London, Wise, and such persons as laid out ground in the Dutch taste, which would be much better subjects... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 500 páginas
...time fashionable to declaim against architectural waterworks, and to ask triumphantly, what are les eaux of Versailles to the cataracts of the Nile and...acknowledged that there exist gardens, the work of London, Wise, and such persons as laid out ground in the Dutch taste, which would be much better subjects... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 420 páginas
...are les eaux of Versailles to the cataracts of the Nile and of Niagara, to the falls of SchaiFhausen, or even to those of the Clyde ? The answer is ready...anomalies have fallen into general disuse, it must he acknowledged that there exist gardens, the work of Loudon, Wise, and such persons as laid out ground... | |
| 1828 - 608 páginas
...owners, silent and snugly smoking at the end of the paltry walk of every Lust-huys. This topiariun art, as it was called, came into England with King...anomalies have fallen into general disuse, it must be acknow* ledged that there exist gardens, the work of Loudon, Wise, and such persons as laid out ground... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 460 páginas
...beyond what they might have previously supposed it was within the compass of human art to produce.—We do not mean to say that the expense was altogether...general disuse, it must be acknowledged that there exists gardens, the work of London, Wise, and such persons as laid out ground in the Dutch taste, which... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 446 páginas
...must not, on this account, be construed as vindicating the paltry imitations of the Dutch, who dipped yews into monsters of every species and description,...general disuse, it must be acknowledged that there exists gardens, the work of London, Wise, and such persons as laid out ground in the Dutch taste, which... | |
| Andrew Jackson Downing - 1844 - 546 páginas
...Dutch, who clipped yews into monsters of every species, and relieved them with painted wooden figures. The distinction betwixt the Italian and Dutch is obvious....production of art, the other a distortion of nature." THE MODERN STYLE. Down to the time of Addison, in the beginning of the eighteenth century, the formal... | |
| Andrew Jackson Downing - 1844 - 554 páginas
...distinction betwixt the Italian and Dutch is obvious. A stone hewn into a gracefully ornamented vase or um, has a value which it did not before possess ; a yew...production of art, the other a distortion of nature," THE MODERN STYLE. Down to the time of Addison, in the beginning of the eighteenth century, the formal... | |
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