| James Boswell - 1891 - 566 páginas
...laid out the Leasowes, continues : — ' Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to...plantation where there is something to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind, I will not inquire : perhaps a surly and sullen speculator may think... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 478 páginas
...contempt for the poet's horticultural pursuits. "Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to...plantation where there is something to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire." The doctor reports that Lyttelton was jealous... | |
| Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 508 páginas
...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 object to...something to be hidden — demand any great powers of the mind, I will not enquire : perhaps a surly and sullen spectator may think such performances rather... | |
| Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 488 páginas
...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 object to...something to be hidden — demand any great powers of the mind, I will not enquire : perhaps a surly and sullen spectator may think such performances rather... | |
| Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 478 páginas
...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 object to...something to be hidden — demand any great powers of the mind, I will not enquire : perhaps a surly and sullen spectator may think such performances rather... | |
| Heinrich Schmidt - 1905 - 76 páginas
...brightness of genius and learning. Ra. 1 58. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to...demand any great powers of mind, I will not inquire. Lives (Shenstone). Out of this story he formed a tragedy, which, if the circumstances in which he wrote... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...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 object to...plantation where there is something to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind, I will not enquire : perhaps a sullen and surly speculator may think... | |
| Basil Williams - 1913 - 478 páginas
...the designer's classical lore. ' Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves and to place a bench in every turn where there is an object to catch the view ; to make water run where it will be heard, or to stagnate where it will be seen ; 1 • My son, the gods may give thee power, if they will, but... | |
| Alice Isabel Hazeltine - 1918 - 112 páginas
...been quoted with far too great respect: "Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make the water run where it will be heard, and stagnate where it will be seen; to leave intervals where... | |
| Alice Isabel Hazeltine - 1918 - 108 páginas
...the eye will be pleased, and to thicken the plantation where there is something to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind I will not inquire; perhaps a surly and sullen spectator may think such performances the sport rather than the business of human reason"... | |
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