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22o GARDENING and Ch. XXIV.
are continued till they join the objefl. Straight
walks in recesses do well: they vary the seen ery ’
and are favorable to meditation.
Avoid a straight avenue direfled upon a dwel-
ling-house: better far an oblique approach in a
waving line, with single trees and other scattered
objesss interposed. In a diress approach, the fir st
appearance is continued to the end: we see a
house at a distance, and we see it all along in the
same spot without any variety. In an oblique ap-
proach , the interposed objesss put the house seem-
ingly in motion: it moves with the passenger, and
appears to diress its course so as hospitably to in-
tercept him. An oblique approach contributes
also to variety: the house, seen successively indif-
ferent diressions , assumes at each step a new
figure.
A garden on a ssat ought to be highly and va-
rioussy ornamented, in order to occupy the mind,
and prevent our regretting the insipidity of an uni-
form plain. Artificial nwunts in that view are
common; but no person has thought of an arti-
ficial walk elevated high above the plain. Such
a walk is airy , and tends to elevate the mind: it
extends and varies the prospefl; and it makes the
plain , seen from a height, appear more agreeable.
Whether ssiould a ruin be in the Gothic or
Grecian form? In the former, I think; because
it exhibits the triumph of time over strength ; a
melancholy, but not unpleasant thought : a Gre-
are continued till they join the objefl. Straight
walks in recesses do well: they vary the seen ery ’
and are favorable to meditation.
Avoid a straight avenue direfled upon a dwel-
ling-house: better far an oblique approach in a
waving line, with single trees and other scattered
objesss interposed. In a diress approach, the fir st
appearance is continued to the end: we see a
house at a distance, and we see it all along in the
same spot without any variety. In an oblique ap-
proach , the interposed objesss put the house seem-
ingly in motion: it moves with the passenger, and
appears to diress its course so as hospitably to in-
tercept him. An oblique approach contributes
also to variety: the house, seen successively indif-
ferent diressions , assumes at each step a new
figure.
A garden on a ssat ought to be highly and va-
rioussy ornamented, in order to occupy the mind,
and prevent our regretting the insipidity of an uni-
form plain. Artificial nwunts in that view are
common; but no person has thought of an arti-
ficial walk elevated high above the plain. Such
a walk is airy , and tends to elevate the mind: it
extends and varies the prospefl; and it makes the
plain , seen from a height, appear more agreeable.
Whether ssiould a ruin be in the Gothic or
Grecian form? In the former, I think; because
it exhibits the triumph of time over strength ; a
melancholy, but not unpleasant thought : a Gre-