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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    foot of a turfy flope on the verdant banks of IliiTus, is a pattern of elegant fimplicity* The Greek hiftorian too, who only perpe- tuated the memory of the Panchaean para- dife from an older writer, has furnifhed (by the help of tradition) an imaginary one from himfelf. This creature of fancy is well known to the readers of Paradife Loft, as far as concerns its appellation, and fitu- ation that Nyfeian ifle Girt with the river Triton. B. 4. ver. 275. Milton further tells us (which the reader is requefted to keep in mind) that this place was appropriated to the nurture of a Deity. To know more of it, we mu ft go to Diodorus*. After commending the ifland for fome general beauties of fcenery, and for its fertility, and uncommon falu- [* Lib. 3. c. 67, 68.] f brity,