Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . t groves, each alley has a brother,And half the platform just repeats the other, (Ess. iv. 117.) tells us, in another place of the same essay (57), to Consult the genius of the place in allThat tells the waters
Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . t groves, each alley has a brother,And half the platform just repeats the other, (Ess. iv. 117.) tells us, in another place of the same essay (57), to Consult the genius of the place in allThat tells the waters or to rise or fall,Or helps th ambitious hill the heavens to scale,Or scoops in circling theatres the vale ;Calk in the country, catches opening glades,Joins willing woods, and varies shades with shades;Now breaks, or now directs, th extending lines,Paints as you plant, and as you work, spacious and sumptuous edifice seems todemand in its immediate vicinity, straight andbroad terraces, fountains and statues, parterressystematically arranged, and filled with choiceexotics; and when a less artificial style is re-sorted to, the pleasure-grounds should be at sucha distance from the residence, that we may forgetfor the moment, that the whole is the creation ofArt, and the result of lavish expenditure. f A f: 9 « « * A «y> « . tff a O -. 6 p •> « «. J» * (. ,. s. « ^ ffll^M * * **> A* ^ A A A A * * - Hiik °
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