 | 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,...to be visited by travellers and copied by designers For awhile the inhabitants of Hagley affected to tell their acquaintance of the little fellow that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...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 of...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers'. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place 4 bench at every turn where there is an... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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 of the skilful ; a place to be visited byt travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in uncUiIating curves, and to place... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...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,...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...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,...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...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,...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...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,...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 pages
...to wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment ajid such fancy, as made his little domain (he envy of the great, and the admiration of the skilful...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...wind his waters ; which he did with such 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 hy designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...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,...be visited by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to-place a bench at every turn where there is an... | |
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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,... 
