Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Bearb.]: An Essay On The Picturesque: As Compared With The Sublime And The Beautiful; And, On The Use Of Studying Pictures, For The Purpose Of Improving Real Landscape (Band 1) (London, 1796)

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H E R E is no country, I believe (if

we except China) where the art of
laying out grounds is fo much cultivated as
it now is in England. Formerly the deco-
rations near the houfe were infinitely more
magnificent and expenfive than thev are at
prefentj but the embellifhments of what
are called the grounds, and of all the exten-
five fcenery round the place, was much lefs
attended to; and, in general, the park, with
all its timber and thickets, was left in a ftate

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