 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 522 pages
...ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his profpects, to diverfify his furface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which...travellers, and copied by defigners. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his profpects, to diverfify his furface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which...and the admiration of the fkilful ; a place to be vifrted by travellers, and copied by defigners. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...ambition ojf rural elegance : he began from this time to point his profpe6ls, to diverfify his furface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which...domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the Ikilful ; a place to be vifited by travellers, and copied by defigners. Whether to plant a walk in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his profpects, to diverfify his furface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which...domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of thefkilful; a place to be vifited by travellers, and copied by defigners. Whether to plant a walk in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 294 pages
...point his profpcds, to diverfify •his furface, t•j entangle his walks, and to wind his wa-- tcrs ; which he did with fuch judgement and fuch fancy, as...great, and the admiration of the fkilful; a place to bs vifited by travellers, and copied by defigners. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...diverfify his furface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters; which he did with fuch judgment and fuch fancy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the f«. il ful ; a place to be vifitrd by travellers, and copied by defigners.' How exquifite Dr. Johnfon's... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1782 - 588 pages
...furface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with fuch judgment and fuch f<tncy, as made his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the ikilful ; a place to be vifited bv travellers, and copied by defigner?.' How exquifite Dr. Johnfon's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and such fancy as made his little domain the envy 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his profpects, to diverfy his furface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which...travellers, and copied by defigners. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his profpects, to diverfy his furface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which...great, and the admiration of the fkilful; a place to be vifitcd by travellers, and copied by defigners. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to... | |
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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,... 
