 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...C RO K ER. * Johnson ( Works, viii. 409) thus writes of Shenstone and the Leasowes : — ' He began to point his prospects, to diversify his surface,...of the great and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers and copied by designers For awhile the inhabitants of Hagley affected... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...estate into his own hands, more to the improvement of its beauty, than the increase of its produce. Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and...entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he die with such judgment and suchfancy, as made'hisjlittle domain the envy of the great, and the admiration... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...produce. : Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural eleg.ince ; he begnn from this time to point his prospects, to diversify...entangle his walks, and to wind his waters; which he die with such judgment and such fancy, as made his.little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...estate into his own hands, more to the improvement of its beauty, than the increase of its produce. Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and...the great, and the admiration' of the skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...estate into his own hands, more to the improvement of its beauty, than the increase of its produce. Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and...of the great, and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...estate into his own hands, more to the improvement of its beauty, than the increase of its produce. Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and...of the great, and the admiration of the skilful; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...produce. Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his amhition of rural elegance: he hegan from this time to point his prospects, to diversify...judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the cuvy of the great, and the admiration of the skilful; a place to he visited hy travellers, and copied... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 pages
...estate into his own hands, more to the improvement of its be-auty, tha:i the increase of its produce. Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and...his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle liis walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment ajid such fancy, as made his little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...estate into his own hands, more to the improvement of its beauty, than the increase of its produce. Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures) and...of the great, and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 pages
...into his own hands, more to the improvement of its beauty, than the increase of its produce. Nowwas excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition...of the great, and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves,... | |
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Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy,... 
