 | Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 pàgines
...magnificent works at Kensington ; where a gravel-pit was turned into a fortification of evergreens. " It must have been a fine genius for gardening, that...thought of forming such an unsightly hollow, into a beautiful area ; and to have hit the eye with so uncommon To do farther justice to Sir William Temple,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 pàgines
...notice of that part in the upper garden at Kensington, which was at first nothing but a gravel-pit. It must have been a fine genius for gardening that...beautiful an area, and to have hit the eye with so un-. common and agreeable a scene as that which it is now wrought into. To give this particular spot... | |
 | 1832 - 308 pàgines
...to commend, I shall take notice of that part in the upper garden at Kensington, which was at first nothing but a gravel pit. It must have been a fine genius for gardening that could have thought o_f forming such an unsightly hollow into so beautiful an area, and to have hit the eye with so uncommon... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pàgines
...notice of that part in the upper garftcn at Kensington, which was at first nothing hut a gravel-pit. It must have been a fine genius for gardening that...unsightly hollow into so beautiful an area, and to liave hit the eye with so uncommon and agreeable a scene as that which it is now wrought into. To give... | |
 | 1838 - 730 pàgines
...notice of that part in the upper garden at Kensington, which was at first nothing but a gravelpit. It must have been a fine genius for gardening that...have thought of forming such an unsightly hollow into BO beautiful an area, and to have hit the eye with so uncommon and agreeable a scene as t'.iat which... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 502 pàgines
...called " The upper garden of Kensington ; it was," says Addison, "at first, nothing but a gravelpit. It must have been a fine genius for gardening, that...such an unsightly hollow into so beautiful an area. On one side of the walk you 1 The effect it had on Dr. Johnson's mind throughout life is a well-known... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 518 pàgines
...called " The upper garden of Kensington ; it was," says Addison, "at first, nothing but a gravelpit. It must have been a fine genius for gardening, that...forming such an unsightly hollow into so beautiful an urea. On one side of the walk you 1 The effect it bad on Dr. Johnson's mind throughout life is a well-known... | |
 | 1849 - 466 pàgines
...magnificent works at Kensington, where a gravel-pit was turned into a fortification of evergreens. " It must have been a fine genius for gardening, that...have thought of forming such an unsightly hollow into a beautiful area; and to have hit the eye with so uncommon and agreeable a scene, as that which it... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 pàgines
...genius for gardening, that could have thought of forming such an unsightly hollow into a beautiful area ; and to have hit the eye with so uncommon and agreeable a scene, ae that which it is now wrought into." How little does this opinion accord with those which he had... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 902 pàgines
...notice of that part in the upper garden at Kensington, which was at first nothing but a gravel-pit. It must have been a fine genius for gardening that could have thought of forming "ich an unsightly hollow into so beautiful an area, and to have hit the eye with so uncommon and agreeable... | |
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It must have been a fine genius for gardening that could have thought of forming such an unsightly hollow into so beautiful an area... 
