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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a ... - Page 299
by Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 578 pages
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Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography

E. C. Relph - Architecture - 1981 - 252 pages
...that existed so that everything was in 'keeping'. Pope gave precise advice on how to proceed: Consult the Genius of the Place in all, That tells the waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th'ambitious Hill the heav'n to scale, Figure 2.4: The landscape garden at...
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Samuel Richardson: Minute Particulars Within the Large Design

Marijke Rudnik-Smalbraak - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 296 pages
...Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall, How breaks or now directs, th'intending Lines; Paints as you plant, and, as you work,...
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The Arts, Society, Literature

James M. Heath - Arts and society - 1984 - 208 pages
...He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, Surprizes, varies, and conceals the Bounds. Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th' ambitious Hill the Heav'n to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the...
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The Poetics of Gardens

Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - Architecture - 1988 - 286 pages
...Alexander Pope advised his patron, Lord Burlington, and other enthusiastic gardeners of the day to Consult the Genius of the Place in all, That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall. . . . But by this time the snakes and dragons and tigers of old lived only in metaphor...
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Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture

John Dixon Hunt - Architecture - 1992 - 414 pages
...the English landscape movement, whose guiding principle had been formulated by Pope himself: Consult the Genius of the Place in all That tells the waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th'ainhitions hill the Heai>'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the...
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Getting Back Into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-world

Edward S. Casey - Philosophy - 1993 - 444 pages
...to bend, / To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; / in all, let Nature never be forgot. / Consult the Genius of the Place in all, / That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall." 75. Cf. Edmund Husserl, Ideas I, trans. WRB Gibson (New York: Collier, 1956), sees....
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The Garden as an Art

Mara Miller - Gardening - 1993 - 252 pages
...best, the design exploits the features of the site aesthetically. As Alexander Pope suggested: Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th'ambitious Hill the heav'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the...
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Gardening in the Lower Midwest: A Practical Guide for the New Zones 5 and 6

Diane Heilenman - Gardening - 1994 - 266 pages
...countryside. Alexander Pope, an eighteenth-century man of letters and a gardener, commands us still: Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th'ambitious Hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the...
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Glory of Ottawa: Canada's First Parliament Buildings

Carolyn Ann Young - Architecture - 1995 - 228 pages
..."Epistle to the Earl of Burlington" (1732, argument of the use of riches, 11. 57-64) advised: Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th' ambitious Hill the heav'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the...
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Viaggio nel pittoresco: il giardino inglese tra arte e natura

Teresa Calvano - Art - 1996 - 310 pages
...that tells the water or to rise, or fall, or helps the ambitious hill the heav'ns to scale, or scoops in circling theatres the vale; calls in the country, catches op'ning glades, join willing woods, and varies shades from shades; now breaks, or now directs, th'intending lines,...
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