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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    [This extcnfion of mere garden-fcenery was difapproved of long ago by onr allegoric poet; as is evident from his defcription of the enclofure he has entitled the Bower of blifs: Thus being enter’d, they behold around A large and fpacious plain, on ev’ry fide Strowed with pleafance, whofe fair grafty ground Mantled * with green, and goodly beautified With all the ornaments of Flora’s pride, Wherewith her mother Art, as half in fcorn Of niggard Nature, like a pompous bride Did deck her, and too lavijhly adorn, When forth from virgin-bower fhe comes in.til’ early morn. Fairy Queen, B. 2. C. 12. ft. 50. [ * The conftru&ion here is not very eafy: the words they behold in the firft line muft be underftood as if repeated. Alfo the two laft lines of the ftanza muft be fuppofed to change places, to make the fenfe perfedtly intelligible.] If