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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes - Page 253
by Samuel Johnson - 1811
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Lives of the poets. Lives of eminent persons. Political tracts. Philological ...

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to...powers of mind, I will not inquire : perhaps a surly and sullen spectator may think such performances rather the sport than the business of human reason....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place 3 3 '95:5}3v3-1 ,b2e+ and sullen spectator may think such performances rather the sport than the business of human reason....
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Works, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to...run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it wll be seen ; to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to thicken the plantation where...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...by travellers, and copied by designers. AVhethor to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place ׀ 0 ߌ ' 낀 N ... 0 v ߺ 0 f oT mind, I will not inquire : perhaps a surly and sullen spectator may think such performances rather...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...curves, and to place a bench at every turn wbere there is an object to catch the view ; to make the water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate...plantation where there is something to be hidden; demands any great powers of mind, I will not inquire: perhaps asullen and surly speculator may think...
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Domestic Architecture: Containing a History of the Science, and the ...

Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...out shrubberies, Dr. Johnson says, very justly, is to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view, to make the water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen, and to leave intervals...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 70

1842 - 788 pages
...visited by travellers and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to...something to be hidden — demand any great powers of the mind, I will not inquire : perhaps a surly and sullen spectator may think such performances rather...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 70

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 558 pages
...visited by travellers and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to...and to stagnate where it will be seen — to leave interval! wbere the eye will be pleased, and to thicken the plantation where there is something to...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...by travellers, and copied by designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to...pleased, and to thicken the plantation where there is romething to be hidden ; demand any great powers of mind, I will not inquire : perhaps a surly and...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 19

Literature - 1848 - 634 pages
...visited hy travellers and copied hy designers. Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view — to mnke water run where it will be heard, and lo stagnate where it will be seen— to leave intervals...
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