 | Thomas Whately - 1770 - 280 pages
...worfe. It is but a number of regularities put together in a diforderly manner, and equally diftant from the beautiful both of art and of nature. The true beauty of an outline confifts more in breaks than in fweeps ; rather in angles than in rounds ; in variety, not in fuc>... | |
 | Thomas Whately - 1801 - 172 pages
...It is but a number of regula put together in a disorderly manner, and equally distant from th tiful both of art and of nature. The true beauty of an outline more in breaks than in sweeps; rather in angles than in rounds; not in succession. The outline of a... | |
 | 1823 - 872 pages
...rounds, each a portion of a greater or less circle, composing all together a line literally serpentine, is, if possible, worse. It is but a number of regularities...of nature. The true beauty of an outline consists mort in breaks than in sweeps ; rather in angles than in rounds ; in variety, not in succession. Every... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1839 - 760 pages
...landscape-gardening. " The first requisite," says Whately, speaking of the outline of a wood, " is irregularity. The true beauty of an outline consists more in breaks...rather in angles than in rounds ; in variety, not in succession." Irregularity, indeed, is the soul of every beauty in the outline of plantations, lawns,... | |
 | 1839 - 760 pages
...landscape-gardening. " The first requisite," says Whately, speaking of the outline of a wood, " is irregularity. The true beauty of an outline consists more in breaks...rather in angles than in rounds ; in variety, not in succession." Irregularity, indeed, is the soul of every beauty in the outline of plantations, lawns,... | |
 | Humphry Repton - 1840 - 684 pages
...rounds, each a portion of a greater or less cirele, composing altogether a line literally serpentine, is. if possible, worse : it is but a number of regularities...in breaks, than in sweeps ; rather in angles, than rounds ; in variety, not in succession. " The outline of a wood is a continued line, and small variations... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...says Whealley, " may sometimes be great and always beautiful ; the first requisite is irregularity. The true beauty of an outline consists more in breaks than in sweeps, rather in angles than rounds, in variety, not in succession." Great art and skill are required in removing trees and thinning... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 600 pages
...rounds, each a portion of a greater or less circle, composing altogether a line literally serpentine, is, if possible, worse ; it is but a number of regularities...more in breaks than in sweeps ; rather in angles than rounds ; in variety, not in succession. The outline of a wood is a continued line, and small variations... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 590 pages
...rounds, each a portion of a greater or less circle, composing altogether a line literally serpentine, is, if possible, worse; it is but a number of regularities put together in adisorLandscape. In landscape we find Nature employing broken colours in enharmonic consonance and... | |
 | John Weale - 1859 - 622 pages
...ronnds, each a portion of a greater or less circle, composing altogether a line literally serpentine, is, if possible, worse ; it is but a number of regularities put together in ะป disorderly manner, and equally distant from the beautiful, both of art and of nature. The tnie beauty... | |
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... the first requisite is irregularity. That a mixture of trees and underwood should form a long straight line can never be natural, and a succession of easy sweeps and gentle rounds, each a portion of a greater or less circle, composing altogether a... 
