Gilpin, William S.: Practical hints upon landscape gardening: with some remarks on domestic architecture, as connected with scenery (London: Cadell [u.a.], 1835)

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LANDSCAPE GARDENING.

44 hurt as if a handful of sand were flung into
“ them, the sufferers are too apt to vent their
“ resentment in the worst of wishes against
44 the devisers and perpetrators of such enor-
i( mities. We have seen a brotherhood of
44 beautiful hills, the summits of which, while
44 they remained unplanted, must have formed
44 a fine undulating line, now presenting
44 themselves with each a circle of black fir
44 like a skimming-dish on its head, com-
44 bined together with long narrow lines of the
44 same complexion, like a chain of ancient
44 fortifications, consisting of round towers
44 flanking a strait curtain, or rather like a
44 range of college caps connected by a broad
44 black riband. Other plantations, in the
44 awkward angles which they have been
44 made to assume, in order that they might
44 not trespass upon some edible portion
44 of grass land, have come to resemble
44 Uncle Toby’s bowling-green transported to
44 a northern hill side. Here you shall see a
44 solitary mountain with a great black patch
44 stuck on its side, like a plaster of Bur-
44 gundy pitch ; and there another, where the
44 plantation, instead of gracefully sweeping
44 down to its feet, is broken short off in mid