s. QAs I have already said, there can be no objection to the use ofwords which may in any way assist the auditor or reader in moreperfectly comprehending verbal description, even although they shouldnot be capable of any thing like accurate or incontrovertible definition.The folly lies in setting… … CHAPTER X. Having now examined the chief qualities that in such various waysrender objects interesting—having shown how much the beauty, spirit,and effect of landscape, real or imitated, depend upon a just degree ofvariety and intricacy, on a due mixture of rough and smooth in thesurface, and of…
Landscape gardening · Aesthetics
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