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

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like their petit maitres, they are all out of nature, all
affedation ; yet it is an assedation often delightful, and
absurdity generally overssowing with taste and fancy: in
their best works there isffuch a mysserious, p leasing in^
tricacy in the disposition, such variety in the objeds, so
much splendour and animation in the scenery, and sd
much skill apparent in the execution of every part, that
the attention of the spedatcr never ssags'; the succession
is so rapid, that he is hurried on from one exhibition to
another, with his mind constantly upon the stretch: he
has only time to be pleased ; there is no leisure to ressed;
none to be disgusted with the extravagance of what he
sees. If their Gardens are less rational than yours, they
are certainly much more entertaining; and though, upon
the whole, they can by no means be proposed as models
for imitation, yet are there many things to be borrowed
from them, which might be adopted by you with con-
siderable advantage.
I may say the same with regard'to the Italian Gardens,
of which the flyle is less asseded, less extravagant than
in