Gardens of celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London . e half so magnificent as one hundredfountains, full of statues by Girardin. Horace contrasts this artificiality with the lovely freedomof nature, in which each tree and shrub is suffered to grow as itlists. He ridicules the fact that the venerable oak, the romanticbeech, the useful elm, and even the sweeping circuit of the lime,and the regular round of the chestnut, and the almost mouldedorange-tree, were corrected by such fantastic admirers of compass, the square, were of more use in the plantation,he says, than
Gardens of celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London . e half so magnificent as one hundredfountains, full of statues by Girardin. Horace contrasts this artificiality with the lovely freedomof nature, in which each tree and shrub is suffered to grow as itlists. He ridicules the fact that the venerable oak, the romanticbeech, the useful elm, and even the sweeping circuit of the lime,and the regular round of the chestnut, and the almost mouldedorange-tree, were corrected by such fantastic admirers of compass, the square, were of more use in the plantation,he says, than the nurseryman. But while thus singing the praises of natural beauty, this ac-complished product of the age of whalebone and wiggery, at thesame time applauded and encouraged the most rampant artificiality ;for he advocates the introduction into the picture of a feignedsteeple, of a distant church, or an unreal bridge, to disguise thetermination of water, and argues that being intended to improvethe landscape, they are no more to be condemned because common,. 164. ^ /> 111 K.^
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