 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...too far. Though an avenue crossing a park or separating a lawn, and intercepting views from the seat to which it leads, are capital faults ; yet a great...noble air, and, Like footmen running before coaches To tell the inn what lord approaches, announces the habitation of some man of distinction. In other places... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Artists - 1827 - 400 pages
...too far. Though an avenue crossing a park or separating a lawn, and intercepting views from the seat to which it leads, are capital faults, yet a great...noble air, and Like footmen running before coaches To tell the inn what Lord approaches, announces the habitation of some man of distinction. In other places... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...too far. Though an avenue crossing a park or separating a lawn, and intercepting views from the seat to which it leads, are capital faults ; yet a great...woods, perhaps before entering a park, has a noble air. In other places the total banishment of all particular neatness immediately about a house, which is... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 pages
...lawn, and intercepting views from the seat to which it leads, are capital faults, yet a great avenue2 cut through woods, perhaps before entering a park,...air, and " Like footmen running before coaches To tell the inn what lord approaches," announces the habitation of some man of distinction. In other places... | |
 | Gardening - 1849 - 466 pages
...lawn, and intercepting views from the seat to which it leads, are capital faults, yet a great avenue 2 cut through woods, perhaps before entering a park,...air, and " Like footmen running before coaches To tell the inn what lord approaches," announces the habitation of some man of distinction. In other places... | |
 | Walter Howe - Gardening - 1890 - 332 pages
...too far. Though an avenue crossing a park or separating a lawn, and intercepting views from the seat to which it leads, are capital faults, yet a great...and, " Like footmen running' before coaches— To tell the inn what lord approaches," announces the habitation of some man of distinction. In other places... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Landscape architecture - 1904 - 144 pages
...reformation feems to me to have been pujhed too far. ^Though an avenue crojfing a park or Jeparating a lawn, and intercepting views from the feat to which...noble air, and Like footmen running before coaches To tell the inn what lord approaches, announces * Of this kind one of the mojl noble is that of Stan/lead,... | |
 | Alice Drayton Greenwood - Great Britain - 1913 - 306 pages
...style; " though an avenue crossing a park or separating a lawn, and intercepting views from the seats to which it leads, are capital faults, yet a great avenue cut through woods, perhaps before a park, has a noble air, and Like footmen running before coaches To tell the inn what lord approaches.... | |
 | English literature - 1782 - 774 pages
...Still in fome lights the reformation feems to me to have beea pnfhed too far. Though an avenue crofting a park, or feparating a lawn, and intercepting views...woods, perhaps before entering a park, has a noble air. In other places the total banitliment of all particular neatnefs immediately about a houfe, which is... | |
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Though an avenue crossing a park or separating a lawn, and intercepting views from the seat to which it leads, are capital faults, yet a great avenue cut through woods, perhaps before entering a park, has a noble air, and Like footmen running before coaches... 
