 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...habit, which, being impelled by external motives, cannot stop at the middle point. Johnson. TRUE TASTE. To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the...not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half the skill is decently to hide. He gains all points who pleasingly compounds, Surprises, varies, and conceals... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...the seven : A light, which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. his own Dispensary '. Name a new play, and he 's...poet's friend, Nay show'd his faults — but wlieii wou siuk the grot ; In all, let nature never be forgot But treat the goddess like a modest fair. Nor over-dress,... | |
 | Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...the figure, and the natural air and disposition. But let us have a few lines more of Mr. Pope — " To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the...forgot: But treat the goddess like a modest fair, Nor over dress, nor leave her wholly bare ; Let not each beauty every where be spied, Where half the skill... | |
 | Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 672 pages
...was to furnish hints and patterns, but not to be imitated with exact servility. The poet's rule says, "To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear...sink the grot, In all, let nature never be forgot." From hence it is evident, that the poet no more meant to banish entirely the terrace or grotto of the... | |
 | Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 684 pages
...to furnish hints and patterns, but not to be imitated with exact servility. The poet's rule says, " To build, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the...sink the grot, In all, let nature never be forgot." From hence it is evident, that the poet no more meant to banish entirely the terrace or grotto of the... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...excellent books on the art ot landscape-gardening which are highly esteemed. — (RB) PRELIMINARY ESSAY. " To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the...not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half the skill is decency to hide ; He gains all points who pleasingly confounds, Surprises, varies, and conceals... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...worth the seven: A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Nôtre have it not to give. starry reign. There, through the prison of unbounded...Nature from escape, Wide roams the Russian exile. fnir. Nor over-dress, nor leave her wholly bore; Let not each beauty everywhere be spied, Where half... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...worth the seven : A light which in yourself you must perceive; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give, ` skill is decently to hide. He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds. Surprises, varies, and conceals... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...worth the seven: A light which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le Notre have it not to give. 'tis time he should. He 's dead, you say ; then let...rot : I in glad the medalst were forgot I promis'd skill is decently to hide. He gains all poinla, who pleasingly confounds, Surprises, varies, and conceals... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...well as the !<"el and the painter, nature, la belle nature, must be the model. In short, "To builr!, to plant, whatever you intend, To rear the column,...sink the grot, In all, let nature never be forgot." Of the elements necessary to constitute a Landfc'ape Garden, namely, grounds, woods, water and buildings,... | |
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To build, to plant, whatever you intend. To rear the column, or the arch to bend, To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot; In all, let nature never be forgot. 
