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

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rnay often conceive more than it is practicable to execute;
yet let them always boldly look up to the sun, and copy
as much of its lustre as they can : circumstances will
frequently obstrudh them in their course, and they may
be prevented from soaring high; but their attention
ssiould conssantly be fixed on great objeds, and their
productions always demonstrate, that they knew the road
to perfection, had they been enabled to proceed on the
journey.
Where twining serpentine walks, digging holes and
crooked ditches for earth to raise mole-hills, scatterincr
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shrubs, and ringing never-ceasing changes on lawns,
groves and thickets, is called Gardening; artists will have
few opportunities of displaying their talents; it matters
little there who are the Gardeners; a cabbage planter
may rival a Claude, and a clown out-twine a Pousiin :
Jihe meanest may do the little there is to be done, and
the best could reach no farther. But wherever a better
fiyle is adopted, and Gardens are to be natural, without
resemblance to vulgar Nature, new without afsedatioh,
and