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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    Emongft the woody hills of Dynevowre*, B. 3. c. 3. ft. 8.] Milton, as well as Sidney and Spen-^ ser, lived at a time when rural graces were but little underftood; yet his model of Eden remains unimpeachable. [Milton’s tafte in gardening is almoft as difcernible in his feledtion of four rival paradifes, as in the formation of his own. Three of thefe (E?ma, Daphne, Nyfa) have occurred already. The fourth is what Milton calls Mount Amara:; and he evidently takes his idea of it from Godignus. The relation of this jefuit is only a Latin verfion from the Spanifh of a Valencian author (Urreta) [* The ruins of Dinevor caftle, and the woody hill de- scending from them to the Towy, are the admiration of the prefent age. Yet this is not the place fpoken of by Spenser. The Barry (or Burry) is a different river from the Towy. It is that, which is alfo called the Louglior, and falls into the fame fea as the Towy does, but never into the Towy itfelf. This river not being above three miles eaftward of Dinevor, Spenser has included its banks in the demefnes of that caftle. ] whofe