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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    Juvenal (as has been obferved by the commentator on the Englifli Garden*) difcovers a better tafle, than was apparent in the fafhion of his country. Apuleius (though an afledted writer) has made the fcene, clofe to Pfyche’s manfion, perfedtly fimple: She views a grove Of lofty and large trees, views a clear fpring’s CryAalline fluent midA the grove’s mid- fhade.-f [* See note B to the Commentaiy. The material part ©f the cited lines is Quanto praeftantius elTet Numen aquae, viridi fi margine clauderet undas Herba, nec ingenuum violarent marmora tophum ? Sat. 3. ver. 17.] [ f Videt lucum proceris et vaftis arboribus confitum: videt fontem vitreo latice perlucidum medio luci meditul- lio. Apul. Met. Lib. 5. The clallical reader will perhaps remark, that the language here is not quite fo unaffected as the fcenery.] Not