 | English literature - 1787 - 690 pages
...Thefe are new feature«. But he may certainly break an ill-formed hillock, and (hovel the earth aboiu him as he pleafes, without offence. He may pull up a piece of avrk.« wa-d paling ; he may throw down a cottige; he may ev:n turn the courfe of л Л » toad, Books... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1787 - 512 pages
...withered trunk : he has no right, we allow, to add a magnificent caflle, an impending rock, or a river, to adorn his fore-ground. Thefe are new features....turn the courfe of a road, or a river, a few yards «n this fide, or that. Thefe trivial alterations may greatly add to the beauty of his compofition... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1788 - 334 pages
...fore-ground. Thefe are new features. But he may certainly break an ill-formed hillock ; and Jhovel the earth about him, as he pleafes, without offence. He may pull up a piece of awkward paling — be may throw down a cottage — he may even turn the courfe of a road, or a river, a few yards... | |
 | William Marshall Craig - Landscape drawing - 1793 - 56 pages
...stump. — He may certainly break an ill-formed hillock; and shovel the earth about him as he pleases, without offence. — He may pull up a piece of awkward...may throw down a cottage — he may even turn the course of a road, or a river, a few yards on this side, or that." See Observations on the Mountains... | |
 | William Gilpin - Cumberland (England) - 1808 - 374 pages
...trunk. He has no right, we allow, to add a magnificent caftle — an impending rock — or a river, to adorn his fore-ground. Thefe are new features....that. Thefe trivial alterations may greatly add to the bequty of his compofition ; and yet they interfere not with the truth of portrait. Moft of thefe things... | |
 | William Gilpin - Cumberland (England) - 1808 - 338 pages
...trunk. He has no right, we allow, to add a magnificent caftle — an impending rock — - or a river, to adorn his fore-ground. Thefe are new features....down a cottage — he may even turn the courfe of of a road, or a river, a few yards on this fide, or that. Thefe trivial alterations may greatly add... | |
 | Albert Boime - Art - 1993 - 740 pages
...landscapist "may certainly break an ill-formed hillock; and shovel the earth about him, as he pleases, without offence. He may pull up a piece of awkward...may throw down a cottage — he may even turn the course of a road, or a river, a few yards on this side, or that." 64 The art of constructing castles... | |
 | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - History - 2004 - 400 pages
...features. But he may certainly break an ill-formed hillock; and shovel the earth about him, as he pleases, without offence. He may pull up a piece of awkward...may throw down a cottage — he may even turn the course of a road, or a river, a few yards on this side, or that. These trivial alterations may greatly... | |
 | Catherine E. Rigby - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 348 pages
...features. But he may certainly break an ill-formed hillock, and shovel the earth about him as he pleases, without offence. He may pull up a piece of awkward...may throw down a cottage — he may even turn the course of a river, a few yards on this side, or that. These trivial alterations may greatly add to... | |
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But he may certainly break an ill-formed hillock ; and fhovel the earth about him, as he pleafes, without offence. He may pull up a piece of awkward paling — he may throw down a cottage... 