| Horace Walpole - Landscape architecture - 1904 - 144 pages
...he adds. " What I have faid of the bejl forms of gardens, is meant only offuch as are in fome fort regular ; for there may be other forms wholly irregular,...have more beauty than any of the others ; but they mujl owe it to fome extraordinary difpojitions of nature in the feat, or fome great race of fancy or... | |
| William Temple - Gardening - 1908 - 388 pages
...and climate. What I have said of the best forms of gardens, is meant only of such as are in some sort regular ; for there may be other forms wholly irregular, that may, for ought I know, have more beauty than any of the others ; but they must owe it to some extraordinary... | |
| 1856 - 596 pages
...his refinement, he was capable of comprehending it, or of finding words in which to clothe it:— ' There may be other forms wholly irregular that may,...I know• have more beauty than any of the others. . . . Something of this I have seen in some places, but heard more of it from others who have lived... | |
| John Dixon Hunt, Peter Willis - Architecture - 1988 - 420 pages
...Climate. What I have said, of the best Forms of Gardens, is meant only of such as are in some Sort regular; for there may be other Forms wholly irregular,...know, have more Beauty than any of the others; but 98 they must owe it to some extraordinary Dispositions of Nature in the Seat, or some great Race of... | |
| Tom Turner - Architecture - 1996 - 262 pages
...following remark: What I have said, of the best Forms of Gardens, is meant only of such as are in some Sort regular; for there may be other Forms wholly irregular,...have more Beauty than any of the others; but they must owe it to some extraordinary Dispositions of Nature in the Seat, or some great Race of Fancy or... | |
| Alexander Tzonis - Architecture - 2004 - 554 pages
...Siren, 1950. What I have said of the best forms of gardens is meant only of such as are in some sort regular; for there may be other forms wholly irregular...have more beauty than any of the others. But they must owe it to some extraordinary dispositions of nature in the seat, or some great race of fancy or... | |
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