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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I have now gone through thc
principal points of modern gardening; but
the obfervations I have made relate almoft
entirelv to the grounds, and not to what
may properly be called the garden *. The
embelliflaments near the houfe, and thofe
decorations which would befl accord with
architedlure, and with buildings of every
kind, deferve to be treated feparately, and
more at large; as likewife the different
charadters and effeds of buildings, as con-

* A gentleman, whofe tafte and feeling, both for art
and nature, rank as high as any man’s, was lamenting to
me the extent of Mr. Brown’s operations:— u Former
improvers,” faid he, w at leaft kept near the houfe; but
th:s fellow crawls like a fnail all over the grounds, and
leaves his curfed flime behindhim wherever he goes,”

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