An Essay on the Picturesque: As Compared With the Sublime and the Beautiful; And on the Use of Studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape (Classic Reprint)
Pub Date: 2017-04-19 | ISBN-10 : 1330862635 | ISBN-13 : 9781330862636 | Author : Uvedale Price | Publisher : Paige Tate Select
Excerpt from An Essay on the Picturesque: As Compared With the Sublime and the Beautiful; And on the Use of Studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape The title itfelf might have fhewn that I aimed at fomething more than a mere book of gardening; fome, however, have con ceived that I ought to have begun by fettin g forth all my ideas of lawns, fhrubberies, gravel walks, &c.; and as my arrangement did not coincide with their notions of what it ought to have been, they {eem to have concluded that I had no plan at all. About the...