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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    pic ot arbour') happens to be a magnificent room of audience in the palace of Menelaus. Such was this lexicographer’s learning or di- ligence ; and fuch the inaccuracies which al- moft every page of his dictionary fwarms with; and fuch the labours, which he had the confidence to complain of not being re- warded for beforehand. We know, that the word bower at this day lives only in poetry, and that modern bards chiefly ufe it for imbowering Jhade, or a Jhady enclofure. Yet fome of them (till apply it occafionally according to its original im- port. Pope does, as we have feen already; and lo does Prior in his Solomon: To lead her forth to a diftinguifh’d bower, And bid her drefs the bed. It is fo uled, as early as in Drayton's mi- feries of Queen Margaret. [ Led him through London to the Bifhop’s bower.’] and