...Walpole he was painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, suiliciently bold and opinionative to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden. The great principles on which he worked were perspective, light, and shade. Groups of trees broke a...

...to taste the charms of landscape, sufficiently bold and opinionative to dare and to dictate, and bom with a genius to strike out a great system from the...leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden. The great principles on which he worked were perspective, light, and shade. Groups of trees broke a...

...express their surprise at rinding a sudden and nnperceived check to their walks." He adds that Kent " leaped the fence, and saw that all Nature was a garden." he admits "architectural ornaments" in the garden round the house. He speaks, too, with regret of having...

...characterises him as "painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...from the twilight of imperfect essays." " He leaped i the fence," says our author, " and saw that all nature \ was a garden." •« From Walpole's account...

...language, Kent " was painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...great system from the twilight of imperfect essays." In short, he was the first in English gardening to vindicate the natural against the artificial Banishing...

...moment appeared Kent, painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a genius to...great system from the twilight of imperfect essays." The man Kent deserved the gallows much more than many who have been hung. No one who pretended to be...

...Kent had effected, he summed up his work in a happy phrase, which has almost become proverbial : ' He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.' The discovery led the way to the modern landscape gardening, and to the destruction of the old English...

...forest deep." Walpole says that Kent's "ruling principle was that nature abhors a straight line." Kent "leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden....and valley, changing imperceptibly into each other . . . and remarked how loose groves crowned an easy eminence with happy ornament. . . The great principles...

...thrown open to the public gaze. It was said of Kent, the designer who chiefly worked the change, that he "leaped the fence and saw that all nature was a garden." Then the horse-chestnut was in demand for English gardens, and before the revolution it was planted...

...one of the worst offenders in the destruction of old Gardens. In the amusing language of Wai pole, "he leaped the fence and saw that all Nature was a Garden." Lovers of old Gardens would have had great cause for thankfulness had he resisted his impulse to leap...