The cascades seem to break through the clefts and cracks of rocks that are covered over with moss, and look as if they were piled upon one another by accident. There is an artificial wildness in the meadows, walks, and canals ; and the garden, instead... The Quarterly Review - Page 280edited by - 1916Full view - About this book
| British essayists - 1802 - 356 pages
...artificial wildness in the meadows, walks, and canals ; and the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rockwork that...these rude heaps of stone than in so many statues, and would as soon see a river winding through •woods and meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 362 pages
...artificial wildness in the meadows, walks, and canals ; and the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of .rockwork that...these rude heaps of stone than in so many statues, and would as soon see a river winding through woods and meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...artificial wildness in the meadows, walks, and canals ; £nd the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rock-work,...these rude heaps of stone than in so many statues, and would as soon see a river winding through woods and meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical... | |
| 1804 - 498 pages
...artificial wilclness in the meadows, walks, and canals ; and the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rock-work that...these rude heaps of stone than in so many statues, and would as soon see a river winding through woods and meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...artificial wildness in the meadows, walks, and canals ; and the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rock-work,...these rude heaps of stone than in so many statues, and would as soon see a river winding through woods and meadows, as when it is tossed up in so ma.ny whimsical... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 522 pages
...artificial wildness in the meadows, walks, and canals ; and the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rock-work,...rude heaps of stone, than in so many statues ; and would as soon see a river winding through woods and meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 328 pages
...; and the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rock- work,' that strikes the eye very agreeably. For my part,...these rude heaps of stone than in so many statues, and would as soon see a river winding through woods and meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 476 pages
...artificial wildness in the meadows, walks and canals ; and the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rockwork that...these rude heaps of stone than in so many statues, and would as soon see a river winding through woods and meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 472 pages
...artificial wildness in the meadows, walks and canals ; and the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rockwork that...these rude heaps of stone than in so many statues, and would as soon see a river winding through woods and meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 324 pages
...artificial wildness in the meadows, walks, and canals ; and the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by a natural mound of rock-work that...these rude heaps of stone than in so many statues, and would as soon see a river winding through woods and meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical... | |
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