An essay on design in gardening / first published in 1768. Now greatly augmented. Also a revisal of several later publications on the same subject. By George Mason.

  • George Mason
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on design in gardening / first published in 1768. Now greatly augmented. Also a revisal of several later publications on the same subject. By George Mason. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ESSAY, &c. D E SIG N is an extenfive province, Gar- dening one of its diftri£ts---a diftridt of fo various an appearance, as hardly to be known for the fame country in different pe- riods of time. Wherein confifts its greateft beauty*, has not yet been agreed upon. Nor can it be wondered at, when fome -f have pretended that the very idea of beauty itfelf is idle and vifionary. Yet taffe is by no means arbitrary, however difficult to be marked by the accurate lines of definition. D’Alembert gives the beft account of it, when he fays, “ The truth is, that the fource [* Beauty is here ufed in its moft extended fignification.] [f This notion was advanced in an anonymous pamphlet called ‘ the Inveftigator,’ now almoft forgotten.] “ of B