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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    And to a fuperftitious eye the haunt Of Wood-Gods, and Wood-Nymphs. B. 2. ver. 289. 6i Thefe facred filvan fcenes ” were places of worfhip in the reign of Druidical Prieft- hood; and by no improbable fuppofition “ fuch as of old gave rife to temples, and 46 favoured the religion of the ancient “ world.” * •f Turning woods into groves gives an air of freedom, and introduces a variety of ob- * Lord Shaftesbury’s Moralijis. [Seneca, EpilL 41, has a paflage to the fame purpofe. Si tibi occurrit, &c.— fidem tibi numinis facit. When thou difcern’ft a cluft’ring grove, Aged the trees, their boughs entwin’d In high-afcending boughs above, That heaven-ward our vifion blind ; From that amazing growth of wood, Stillnefs of fecret folitude. And reach of clofe unbroken fhade, Thou deem’d a Godhead there all thro' the gloomy glade.] [ f This pra&ice is alfo recommended in the Englijk Gar- den, b. 2, ver. 156.] je6ts.