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) - Hardcover

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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.

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