 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 Seiten
...first sight, without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissars upon every plant and ' Addieon would seem to have anticipated Goldsmith's complaint, — -The... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1858 - 216 Seiten
...appear more gigantic on account of their being disproportioned and mis-shapen. Our British gardeners, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. The old may inform the young ; and the young may animate those who are advanced in life. The account... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1860 - 652 Seiten
...namely, the beauty which distinguishes it from plantation.-, uf another kind. 'Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees ris«1 in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors on every plant and bush.' These... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 470 Seiten
...first sight, without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissars upon every plant and bush! I do not know whether *I am singular in my opinion, but, for my... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 Seiten
...appear more gigantic on account of their being disproportioned and mis-shapen. Our British gardeners, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. The old may inform the young ; and the young may animate those who are advanced in life. The account... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 688 Seiten
...man of wealth and pride Takes up a place that many poor supplied, &c. THE DBSBRTBD TILLAGE. — G. bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for mjr own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches,... | |
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - 1878 - 316 Seiten
...natural, for even when it was still at its height Addison described it thus: —"Our British gardeners, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from...trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids ; we see the mark of the scissors upon every plant and bush." But this is a digression : I must return to the Elizabethan... | |
 | Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - 1888 - 730 Seiten
...gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humoring nature, love to deviate from it as much as*possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors on every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion ; but for my own part I... | |
 | Henry Arthur Bright - 1881 - 120 Seiten
...England when Addison first attacked it in the Spectator of June 25th, 1712: "Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love...of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not 1 I have adopted Professor Amos's translation. G 2 know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 572 Seiten
...continually repeated, not unlike a funeral procession. — POPE. Sabinus was of the Spectator's opinion : " We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant...I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, hut for my own part I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and... | |
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Our British Gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring Nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible, Our Trees rise in Cones, Globes, and Pyramids, We see the Marks of the Scissars upon every Plant and Bush... 
