Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon].

  • Thomas Whately
Date:
1777
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Credit: Observations on modern gardening / illustrated by descriptions. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    T a9 ] fcents Any .of thefe expedients will. at leatt ‘draw the. attention off from ithe defect; but if the break were to divide the line into equal parts, another uniformity would :be add- ed, without removing the former; for regu- larity always fuggefts a fufpicion of artifice; cand artifice detected, no longer deceives. . Our imaginations would induftrioufly. join the bro- ken parts, and the inane the continued line would bevreftored. | IX. > pot Het He chofen, ‘the pofi- tion of it muft be oblique to the line which isto » _be broken. , A. rectangular divifion produces -famenefs; there is no contra. between the forms .individes but if it-be oblique, while. it.dimi-— _hifhes the. part on one, fide, it enlarges, that on the other. Parallel lines are liable to the fame objection as thofe at right angles: though each by itfelf be the perfect, line of beauty, yet if they correfpond, they form: a.fhape between ) them, whole ‘fides want-contraft. On the fame principle, forms will {ometimes be introduced, ~ defs for their intrinfic than-their occafional .me- fit, im contrafting happily .with thofe about them: each fets off the other; and together - they are amore agreeable compolition than if » they had been more ‘beautiful, but at the fame time more fimilar. . RA wk ta RN - One