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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    3° Sleeps the ftill furface! neither wants the fcene Or flitting lights on waving woods dif- play’d, Or gloom of horror from their darkfome brow. Landfcapes are alfo to be found in Theo- critus* [and Callimachus “f. But Ho- mer does not barely exhibit rural fcenery; he defcribes its effedt on the imagination. About Calypfo’s cave grew vigorous fprings Of alder and abele, and fragrant groves Of cyprefs ^ : wide-wing’d birds had netted there, Loud * Idyl. 7. ver. 6, &c. [f Hymnus in Cererem, ver. 26.] J Though Mr. Knight gives a place to alders in his elegant poem, and abele is even recommended for particular occafions in the Englijh Garden, ftill fome readers may pof- fibly objeft to Homer’s tafte in his choice of filvan mate- rials. Trees that will not thrive in the fea-breeze had been improper for Calypfo’s haunt. This excluded many of the nobleft.