 If, therefore, the painter's landscape be indispensable to the perfection of gardening, it would surely be far better to paint it on canvas at the end of an avenue, as they do in Holland, than to sacrifice the health, cheerfulness, and comfort of a country...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 312edited by - 1795Full view - About this book
 | 1795 - 612 pages
...(Mr. Gilpin), has often regretted that few are capable of being fo reprefenteJ, without confiderable licence and alteration. ' If therefore the painter's...would furely be far better to paint it on canvas at at the end of an avenue, as they do in Holhnd, than to facriiice the health, cheerfulnefs, and comfort... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 420 pages
...alteration. If therefore the painter's landfcape be indiipenfible to the perfection of gardening. ing, it would furely be far better to paint it on canvas...wild but pleafing fcenery of a painter's imagination. There is no exercife fo pleafing to the inquifitive mind, as that of deducing theories and fyftems... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 420 pages
...alteration. If therefore the painter's landfcape be indifpenfible to the perfection of garden*. ing, it would furely be far better to paint it on canvas...and comfort of a country refidence, to the wild but pleafmg fcenery of a painter's imagination. There is no exercife fo pleafmg to the inquifitive mind,... | |
 | Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 684 pages
...therefore, the painter's landscape be indispensable to the perfection of gardening, it would surely be far better to paint it on canvas at the end of an avenue, as they do in Holland, than to sacrifice the health, cheerfulness, and comfort of a country residence, to the wild but pleasing scenery... | |
 | Humphry Repton - Architecture, Domestic - 1840 - 672 pages
...therefore, the painter's landscape be indispensable to the perfection of gardening, it would surely be far better to paint it on canvas at the end of an avenue, as they do in Holland, than to sacrifice the health, cheerfulness, and comfort of a country residence, to the wild but pleasing scenery... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...that if 'the painter's landscapes be indispensable to the perfection of gardening, it would surely be far better to paint it on canvas at the end of an avenue, as they do in Holland, than to sacrifice the health, cheerfulness, and comfort of a country residence, to the wild but pleasing scenery... | |
 | Stephanie Ross - Art - 1998 - 308 pages
...that "If... the painter's landscape be indispensable to the perfection of gardening, it would surely be far better to paint it on canvas at the end of an avenue, as they do in Holland, than to sacrifice the health, cheerfulness, and comfort of a country residence to the wild but pleasing scenery... | |
 | David Marshall - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 284 pages
...that if "the painter's landscapes be indispensable to the perfection of gardening, it would surely be far better to paint it on canvas at the end of an avenue, as they do in Holland, than to sacrifice the health, cheerfulness, and comfort of a country residence, to the wild but pleasing scenery... | |
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