He justifies fountains only on the ground that natural jets-d'eau, though rare, do exist, and are among the most surprising exhibitions of nature : these, he thinks, must therefore be proper objects of imitation ; and since art cannot emulate these natural... The Book of the Garden - Página 629por Charles McIntosh - 1853 - 776 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 456 páginas
...unnatural direction : I must own, I do not feel the weight of that objection ; for natural jets d'eaux, though rare, do exist, and are among the most surprising...weakness by symmetry, variety, and richness of design ; and fountains, such as are still to be seen in Rome and its environs, may be classed with the most... | |
| sir Uvedale Price (bart.) - 1810 - 446 páginas
...unnatural direction : I must own, I do not feel the weight of that objection; for naturalness d'eaux, though rare, do exist, and are among the most surprising...weakness by symmetry, variety, and richness of design ; and fountains, such as are still to be seen in Rome and its environs, may be classed with the most... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 452 páginas
...unnatural direction : I must own, I do not feel the weight of that objection ; for natural jets d'eaux, though rare, do exist, and are among the most surprising...imitable, are surely proper objects of imitation ; and as artf cannot pretend to vie with nature in greatness of style and execution, she must try to compensate... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 460 páginas
...unnatural direction : I must own, I" do not feel the weight of that objection ; for natural jets d'eaux, though rare, do exist, and are among the most surprising...when imitable, are surely proper objects of imitation ; apd as art cannot pretend to vilr with nature in greatness of style and execution, she must try to... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 páginas
...only, on the * Price's Essays on the Picturesque, vol. ii., page 135> ground that natural jets-d'eau, though rare, do exist, and are among the most surprising exhibitions of nature : these, he thinks, must therefore be proper objects of imitation ; and since Art cannot emulate these... | |
| 1828 - 598 páginas
...the * Price's Essays on the Picturesque, vol. ii., page 135. ground ground that natural jets-d'eau, though rare, do exist, and are among the most surprising exhibitions of nature : these, he thinks, must therefore be proper objects of imitation ; and since Art cannot emulate these... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 páginas
...only, on the • Price's Essays on the Picturesque, vol. ii., page 133, ground that natural jets-d'eau, though rare, do exist, and are among the most surprising exhibitions of nature : these, he thinks, must therefore be proper objects of imitation ; and since Art cannot emulate these... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 424 páginas
...as we are disposed to carry it. He justifies fountains only on the ground that natural jets-d'eau, though rare, do exist, and are among the most surprising exhibitions of nature : these, he thinks, must therefore be proper objects of imitation ; and since art cannot emulate these... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 420 páginas
...as we are disposed to carry it. He justifies fountains only on the ground that natural jets-d'eau, though rare, do exist, and are among the most surprising exhibitions of nature : these, he thinks, must therefore be proper objects of imitation ; and since art cannot emulate these... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 460 páginas
...as we are disposed to carry it. He justifies fountains only on the ground that natural jets-d'eau, though rare, do exist, and are among the most surprising exhibitions of nature: these, he thinks, must therefore be proper objects of imitation; and since art cannot emulate these... | |
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