 | SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 sivua
...parts of thofe fumptuous and felfifh folitudes ; and every improvement that was made, was but a (tep farther from nature. The tricks of water-works to wet the unwary, not to refrefh the panting fpcctator, and parterres embroidered in pattern* like a petticoat, were but the... | |
 | Mr. Marshall (William) - 1785 - 698 sivua
...parts of thofe fumptuous and felfifli folitudes; and every improvement that was made, was but a Hep farther from nature. The tricks of water-works to wet the unwary, not to refreih the panting fpeftator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like a petticoa^, were but the... | |
 | William Marshall - 1796 - 486 sivua
...of thofe ' fumptuous and ftlfifh folitudes ; and every im* provement that was made, was but a ftep farther * from nature. The tricks of water-works to wet ' the unwary, not to refrefh the panting fpectator, * and parterres embroidered in patterns like a pet' ticoat, were but... | |
 | 1808 - 408 sivua
...expence »ere the constituent parts of those sumptuous and eelfish solitudes ; and every improvement that was made, was but a step farther from nature....greatness to what it had surfeited on. To crown these important displays uf false taste, the sheers were applied to the lovely wildness of form with which... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 772 sivua
...parts of thofe fumptuous and felfilh folitudes ; and e> very improvement that was made, was but a ftep farther from nature. The tricks of waterworks to wet the unwary, not to refrefh the panting fpeftator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like a petticoat, were but the... | |
 | 1823 - 872 sivua
...constituent parts of those sumptuous and selfish solitudes ; and every improvement that was made, was hut a step farther from nature» The tricks of waterworks...surfeited on. To crown these impotent displays of fal«e taste, the sheers were applied to the lovely wildness of form with which nature has distinguished... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 sivua
...expence were the constituent parts of those sumptuous and selfish solitudes; and every improvement that was made, was but a step farther from nature. The tricks of water-works* had been shut out, to endeavour to recover it by raising large mounts of earth to peep over the walls... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 sivua
...expense were the constituent parts of those sumptuous and selfish solitudes; and every improvement that was made was but a step farther from nature....fashion and novelty to reconcile greatness to what it surfeited on. To crown these impotent displays of false taste, the shears were applied to the lovely... | |
 | 1849 - 466 sivua
...expense were the constituent parts of those sumptuous and selfish solitudes ; and every improvement that was made, was but a step farther from nature. The tricks of water-works 2 to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 sivua
...expense were the constituent parts of those sumptuous and selfish solitudes ; and every improvement that was made, was but a step farther from nature. The tricks of water- works2 to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator, and parterres embroidered in... | |
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The tricks of waterworks to wet the unwary, not to refresh the panting spectator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like a petticoat, were but the childish endeavours of fashion and novelty to reconcile greatness to what it had surfeited on. To crown... 
