 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Landscape gardening - 1859 - 680 pages
...the walls is quite wonderful. It was of him that Walpole justly said, ' that ho was the first artist who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements, with a free disorder natural to each species.' The lime tree is still, however, used by the carver, and we hope that the art of wood carving may gradually... | |
 | John William Clayton - Great Britain - 1859 - 464 pages
...Gibbon, as " an original genius, a citizen of nature." There is no instance before him, he says, of a man who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species. It is uncertain whether he was born in Holland or England.... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1862 - 376 pages
...there is no instance of a man who could give to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chain together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species." And after having enumerated others of his celebrated works, such as those at Windsor, Chatsworth, Burleigh,... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1862 - 368 pages
...there is no instance of a man who could give to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chain together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species." And after having enumerated others of his celebrated works, such as those at Windsor, Chatsworth, Burleigh,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1863 - 884 pages
...there is no instance of a man who could give to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chain together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species.' And after having enumerated others of his celebrated works, such as those at Windsor, Chatsworth, Burleigh,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Derbyshire (Description and travel: Guide books) - 1868 - 296 pages
...his day's sport on the wall, and that some of the birds are still in their death flutter. There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood...elements with a free disorder natural to each species. In the great antechamber are several dead fowl over the chimney, finely executed, and, over a closet-door,... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1868 - 588 pages
...unison of the lines of the building and the decoration. In the words, again, of Walpole, ' there is no instance of a man ' before Gibbons, who gave to wood the loose and airy light' ness of flowers, and chained together the various produc' tions of the elements with a fine... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1869 - 634 pages
...his garden, and it is marvellous what effects he produced with them. Walpole truly says : " There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood...together the various productions of the elements with a fine disorder natural to each species." Let us then, by judicious restoration of his works, show that... | |
 | Amos Dean - Civilization - 1869 - 652 pages
...excelled the most as a carver in wood. It is asserted that there is no instance before him of a man " who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,...elements with a free disorder natural to each species." l Under his operations birds seemed to live, foliage to shoot, and flowers to expand. From the fell... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England) - 1869 - 588 pages
...unison of the lines of the building and the decoration. In the words, again, of Walpole, ' there is no instance of a man ' before Gibbons, who gave to wood the loose and airy light' ness of flowers, and chained together the various produc' tions of the elements with a fine... | |
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There is no instance of a man before Gibbons who gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with a free disorder natural to each species. 
