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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    “ hands; and though there may be more “ honour if they fucceed well, yet there is “ more difhonour if they fail; and ’tis “ twenty to one they will; whereas in re- “ gular figures ’tis hard to make any great “ and remarkable faults.” Very hard in- deed ! for a regular figure is fault enough of itfelf to eclipfe all other abfurdities. Little did Sir William Temple imagine, that in not much more than half a century the Chinefe would become the nominal tafte of his country; or that fo many adventurers in it would do great juftice to his obferva- tion*, and prove by their works, how diffi- cult it is to fucceed in the undertaking. The Chinefe manner (whether real or fic- [ * Though the long extraft from Sir William Tem- ple is copied verbatim (even to the break in it) in the notes to the Englijh Garden, yet the poet does not equally agree with this eflay in allowing the difeernment of that amufing writer; but ftudioufly throws a veil over the defefts of fome defigners of his own time, which Mr. Price as ftudioufly remove?. ] titious) II