 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...produce. Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify...which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made1 his little domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the skilful ; a place to be visited... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...produce. Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify...judgment and such fancy, as made his little domain the llie great, and the admiration of the skilful ; a place by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...Johnson says, his life was unstained by any crime. He farther says of him, " He began from this time to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters ; which...envy of the great and the admiration of the skilful. His house was mean, and he did not improve it; his care was of his grounds. When he came home from... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 844
...Johnson characteristically describes it, ' to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entungle le progeny encceed fancy, as made bis little domain the envy of the great and the admiration of the skilful ; a place... | |
 | 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...says Johnson, " lie began to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walke, and to wind his waters; which he did with such judgment and such fancy, as made his utile domain the envy of the great and the admiration of the skilful; a place to be visited by travellers,... | |
 | 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...says : " now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify...surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters." He succeeded but too well, as it drew visiters from all parts, and led to expenses which he could but... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...Shenstone, "was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify...wind his waters ; which he did with such judgment and fancy as made his domain the envy of the great, and the admiration of the skillful — a place to be... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...ambition of rural elegance, he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surfaces, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters, which he did with much judgment, and such fancy as made his little domain the envy of the great and the admiration of... | |
 | 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 926
...Twickenham had become famous, and Shenstone, as Johnson puts it. had "begun to point his pros- 1 pects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and...of the great, and the admiration of the skilful." Johnson will not enquire whether this "demands any great powers of mind," but he admits that "to embellish... | |
 | 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...— " Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance ; he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify...which he did with such judgment and such fancy as mHe his little domain the envy of the great and the admiration of the skilful — a place to he visited... | |
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Now was excited his delight in rural pleasures, and his ambition of rural elegance : he began from this time to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters... 
