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DRESS GROUND.
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distinct shrubs, without connection, with-
out design. The utter insensibility of the
owner to any ray of taste relieved me from
the painful endeavour to restore a harmony
which he had destroyed for ever.
Upon the whole, from a due consideration
of the question between the old and new
system of landscape gardening, I cannot but
think that the former has been sacrificed on
account of some tasteless absurdities con-
nected with it, which the early improvers, not
being able to separate from it, took the
shorter method of destroying the whole, sub-
stituting the simplicity of unadorned nature
as the accompaniment to the mansion rich in
architectural decoration and variety ; whereas
the architectural foreground, in connection
with a shrubbery below it, would lead in an
easy gradation to the natural scenery of the
park or pasture beyond it.*
And here, perhaps, I may be allowed to
express my opinion that the magnificent
* Sir Uvedale Price seems to be of this opinion when he
says, “ Besides the profit arising from total change, a dis-
“ ciple of Mr. Brown has another motive for recommend-
“ ing it: he hardly knows where to begin, or what to set
“ about, till every thing is cleared; for those objects which
“ to painters are indications are to him obstructions.”
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distinct shrubs, without connection, with-
out design. The utter insensibility of the
owner to any ray of taste relieved me from
the painful endeavour to restore a harmony
which he had destroyed for ever.
Upon the whole, from a due consideration
of the question between the old and new
system of landscape gardening, I cannot but
think that the former has been sacrificed on
account of some tasteless absurdities con-
nected with it, which the early improvers, not
being able to separate from it, took the
shorter method of destroying the whole, sub-
stituting the simplicity of unadorned nature
as the accompaniment to the mansion rich in
architectural decoration and variety ; whereas
the architectural foreground, in connection
with a shrubbery below it, would lead in an
easy gradation to the natural scenery of the
park or pasture beyond it.*
And here, perhaps, I may be allowed to
express my opinion that the magnificent
* Sir Uvedale Price seems to be of this opinion when he
says, “ Besides the profit arising from total change, a dis-
“ ciple of Mr. Brown has another motive for recommend-
“ ing it: he hardly knows where to begin, or what to set
“ about, till every thing is cleared; for those objects which
“ to painters are indications are to him obstructions.”