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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    tions ; and when once the dazzling glare of it podedes the fancy, every loft and delicate impredion lofes its effedt. [Were the credibility of the works of Se- miramis lefs fufpicious, it would be needlefs to feek for further proof of the extent of Eaftern Paradifes. But, to be thoroughly fatisfied of this, we mud recur to more in- difputable authorities in other ancient hido- rians. We read in Xenophon*, that 44 Cv- 44 rus the younger, at Celenae, in a large pa- 44 radife, which abounded with wild beads, 44 mudered the Grecian forces, to the num- 44 ber (in all) of thirteen thoufand.”] It appears then, that in this aera and region paradifes were fometimes enlarged into the fimilitude of foreds, plentifully ftocked with wild beads, and dedicated to the diverfion of hunting. Quintus Curtius further in- forms us, that (in Alexander’s time) to be * De Cyri Expeditione, Lib. x. C 2 podeded