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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    temporary with Sidney was Spenser': who certainly ought not to have been omitted in any enumeration of “ authors not blind “ to the graces of natural * tafte.” Spen- ser’s reputation, as a judge of rural ele- gance, has already been ratified by our gardening poet. As an additional proof to what is cited by him, I beg leave to pro- duce the following couplet, though trans- lated from Tasso. j~ And that, which all fair works doth moft aggrace. The art, which all that wrought, appeared in no place. Fairy Queen. B. 2. c. 12. ft. 58. [ * See the advertifement prefixed to the fourth volume of Mr. Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting. To Spenser is there joined Addison: but the latter part of the remark is no accufation of this efiay. Addison was originally re- ferred to in it for the fame purpofe, as he was (fome years later) in the firft book of the Englijh Garden.'] [t Canto 16. ftanza 9. twalaft lines.} S' • . * > But