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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    5° titious) has of late years been prefented to our view clearly and comprehenfively. * But is it poflible to convey any accurate idea of our own imitations of it ? In this country the fpirit of liberty extends itfelf to the very fancies of individuals. Inde- pendency has been as ftrongly alTerted in matters of tafte, as in religion and govern- ment; it has produced more motley ap- pearances, than perhaps a whole feries of ages can parallel. Yet to this whimfical exercife of caprice the modern improve- ments in gardening may chiefly be attri- * In Chambers’s Chinefe Dejigns; ancl the whole paflage is nearly tranfcribed into Elements of Criticf/n. [ The Efi'ay on Oriental Gardening had not at this time appeared; and before its appearance the little difcourfe (alluded to in the text) was thought by many to be genuine, and was com- mended by fo good a judge as the poet Gray. (See his Life, p. 387.) The reader may fee in the text, that I did not quite rely on its authenticity.] buted.