 I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion: but for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure; and can not but fancy,...  An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste - 9 ページRichard Payne Knight 著 - 1806 - 473 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Harry Roberts - 1901 - 148 ページ
...oldfashioned gardening has never been a fashion at all. When Addison wrote in The Spectator that he would " rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy...diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure," and that he fancied that "an orchard in flower looks infinitely... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 ページ
...globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether nder the hands of his barber before he was bald ;...from a feast before he was surfeited ; — from a troughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure ; and cannot... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 616 ページ
...Versailles." And in the Spectator, No. 444 : " I do not know whether I am singular in my Opinion, but for my part I would rather look upon a Tree in all its Luxuriancy...thus cut and trimmed into a Mathematical Figure." This is of especial interest, because a delight in formality was, generally speaking, the characteristic... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1896 - 312 ページ
...down without confinement, and is fed with an infinite variety of images."4 " I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my own part,...thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure ; and can not but fancy that an orchard in flower looks infinitely more delightful than all the little labyrinths... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1916 - 480 ページ
...globes and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in •11 its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 266 ページ
...rudeness" of Italian and French gardens to the "neatness and elegancy" of English Gardens and says that "he would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy...diffusion of boughs and branches than when it is thus cut into a mathematical figure." ') "The Works of Addison", by GW Greene, 1856. Vol. II, p. 463. 8 ADDISON,... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 334 ページ
...globes and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissars upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all it's luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical... | |
 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 ページ
...globes and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissars upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all it's luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical... | |
 | 1924 - 970 ページ
...rise in Cones, Globes and Pyramids. We see the marks of the Scissars upon every Plant and Bush. . . . For my own part, I would rather look upon a Tree in...Diffusion of Boughs and Branches, than when it is cut and trimmed into a Mathematical Figure ; and cannot but fancy that an Orchard in flower looks infinitely... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 ページ
...Globes, and Pyramids'. Disdaining the 'Neatness and Elegancy' of classical English gardens, he insists: 'I would rather look upon a Tree in all its Luxuriancy...thus cut and trimmed into a Mathematical Figure.' An 'orchard in Flower' is preferable to 'all the little Labyrinths of the most finished Parterre'.36... | |
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