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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    For confonance melodious. Thus the fcene. Not eyes alone enamouring, invites By heav’nly charms of mufic, native airs Far beyond dudied drains. The portal pad, Balks in irradiancy of gilding fun The whole grot’s broad expofure. Flourifh there Sweets in full bloom, cadia fupreme, with all Undying fragrancies. Immingled flow’rs Beds aromatic for the Nymphs compofe; None of Art’s works, but prodigally drown By Nature*, with her negligence divine: The flow’rets never fade, no leaf decays. Such was the idea of an individual, at a time, when fome modern writers feem to [ * which not nice Art, In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour’d forth profufe. P. L. b. 4. ver. 241.] look F 2