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

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terror, converted into noble pidur.es of the sublimest castt
and, by an artful contrast, serve to enforce the efted of
gayer and more luxuriant prospeds.
On some of them are seen gibbets, with wretches
hanging in terrorem upon them; on others, forges,
collieries, mines, coal trads, brick, or lime kilns, glass-
works, and disserent objeds of the horrid kind: what
little vegetation they have, is dismal; the animals that
feed upon it, are hals-samished to the artist’s hands;
and the cottagers, with the huts in which they dwell,
want no additional touches, to indicate their misery : a
few uncouth draggling trees, some ruins, caverns, rocks,
torrents, abandoned villages, in part consumed by fire,
solitary hermitages, and other stmilar objeds, artfully
introduced and blended with gloomy plantations, would
compleat the asped of desolation, and serve to fill the
mind, where there was no possibility of gratifying the
senses.
In prosecuting a plan of this extenlive nature, many
other opportunities would present themselves to the able