A Dissertation on Oriental GardeningW. Griffin, 1773 - 163 Seiten "An explanatory discourse by Tan Chet-qua, of Quang-chew-fu ... Wherein the principles laid down in the foregoing dissertation are illustrated and applied to practice": pages [109]-163. |
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Seite viii - ... amongst the shrubs of the border: upon which he is to go round, to look on one side, at what he has already seen, the large green field; and on the other side at the boundary, which is never more than a few yards from him, and always obtruding upon his sight: from time to time he perceives a little seat or temple stuck up against the wall; he rejoices at the discovery, sits down...
Seite 18 - William for them) affords us but few materials to work with. Plants, ground, and water, are her only productions; and, though both the forms and arrangements of these may be varied to an incredible degree, yet have they but few striking varieties, the rest being of the nature of " changes rung upon bells," which, though in reality different, still produce the same uniform kind of jingling ; the variation being too minute to be easily perceived," " ART must therefore supply the scantiness of Nature,'
Seite 43 - ... pathetic descriptions of tragical events, and many horrid acts of cruelty, perpetrated there by outlaws and robbers of former times: and to add both to the horror and sublimity of these...
Seite 13 - It would be tedious to enumerate all the errors of a false taste : but the havock it has made in our old plantations, must ever be remembered with indignation : the ax has often, in one day, laid waste the growth of several ages ; and thousands of venerable plants, whole woods of them, have been swept away, to make room for a little grass, and a few American weeds. Our virtuosi have scarcely left an acre of shade, nor three trees growing in a line, from the Land's-end to the Tweed ; and if...
Seite 19 - ... to exclude all appearance of art ; on the contrary they think it on many occasions necessary to make an ostentatious shew of their labour. Nature, say they, affords us but few materials to work with. . . . The Chinese are therefore no enemies to strait lines ; because they are, generally speaking, productive of grandeur, which often cannot be attained without them : nor have they any aversion to regular geometrical figures, which they say are beautiful in themselves, and well suited to small...
Seite 45 - ... explosions of fire; the earth trembles under him, by the power of confined air; and his ears are successively struck with many different sounds, produced by the same means; some resembling the cries of men in torment; others the roaring of bulls, and howl of ferocious animals, with the yell of hounds, and the voices of hunters; others are like the mixed croaking of ravenous birds; and others imitate...
Seite 20 - Round the main habitation, and near all their decorated structures, the grounds are laid out with great regularity, and kept with great care: no plants are admitted that intercept the view of the buildings ; nor no lines but such as accompany the architecture properly, and contribute to the general good effect of the whole composition : for they hold it absurd to surround an elegant fabric with disorderly rude vegetation; saying...
Seite 42 - Their scenes of terror are composed of gloomy woods, deep vallies inaccessible to the sun, impending barren rocks, dark caverns, and impetuous cataracts rushing down the mountains from all parts. The trees are ill formed, forced out of their natural directions, and seemingly torn to pieces by the violence of tempests: some are thrown down, and intercept the course of the torrents; others look as if blasted and shattered by the power of lightening : the buildings are in ruins ; or half consumed by...
Seite 38 - In this town the Emperors of China, who are too much the slaves of their greatness to appear in public, and their women, who are excluded from it by custom, are frequently diverted with the hurry and bustle of the capital, which is there represented, several times in the year, by the eunuchs of the palace.
Seite v - ... in this island, it is abandoned to kitchen gardeners, well skilled in the culture of sallads, but little acquainted with the principles of Ornamental Gardening. It cannot be expected that men uneducated, and doomed by their condition to waste the vigor of life in hard labour, should ever go far in so refined, so difficult a pursuit.