Chambers, William: A Dissertation On Oriental Gardening (London: Griffin [u.a.], 1773)

and the cascades glide from the heights- by many a
succession of marble Reps: not a twig is buffered to grow
as nature direds; nor is a form admitted but what is
scientific, and determinable by the rule or compass.
In England, where this antient Ryle is held inc
detestation, and where, in opposition to the red of the
world, a new manner is universally adopted, in which
no appearance of art is tolerated, our gardens differ very
little from common fields, so closely is vulgar nature
copied in most os them; there is generally so little,
variety, and so much want os judgment, in the choice:
os the objeds, such a poverty os imagination in the
contrivance, and of art in the arrangement,, that these
compositions rather appear the ossspring of chance than
design; and a stranger is osten at a loss to know whether.'
he be walking in a. common meadow, or in a pleasure
ground, made and kept at a very considerable expence : he
finds nothing either to delight or to amuse him ; nothing
to keep up his attention, or excite his curiosity; little to
ssatter the senses, and less to touch the passions, or gratisy
the