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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    fucceffivelv. At Paine’s * Hill the banks of J the lake are admirably contrafted by the wild rulficity on the other fide of the arch. As the feenes are feparated from each other by a fufficient interpofition of thicket, the effect of furprife is created by the contrail: had they been lefs diltindt, incongruity mult have been ftriking. •f VISTAS. Contrail of light and Jhade has a power- ful effect in lengthening or contrasting the apparent extenfion of vifeas. Is the termi- nating objedt too near ? then at fome dis- tance from it, on the hither fide of it, the Itronger portion of light fhould be admit- ted : the diftinctnefs of the intermediate parts, and its own comparative degree of * Near Cobham in Surrey. [ f In the firft edition of this EfTay the want of reparation was here cenfured; but the cenfure was afterwards found to have proceeded from a mere flip of memory.] fhade,