inciple of ornament, as being invarious degrees and styles, raised or detached from the surface—somebroad and massy, some minute, light, and intricate; but in the onecase, from being regular and symmetrical, they are considered as orna-ments—in the other, from being irregular, and not designed by… … more if near it; in my idea, however, great advantage might be takenof objects of that kind, even in a pleasure ground. Such a knotty trunkadorned, and half concealed by honeysuckles, jasmines, and roses,reverses the image of Iole dressed in the Lions skin—it is the club ofHercules adorned by her…
Landscape gardening · Aesthetics
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