 | E. C. Relph - 1981 - 252 pages
...that existed so that everything was in 'keeping'. Pope gave precise advice on how to proceed: Consult the Genius of the Place in all, That tells the waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th'ambitious Hill the heav'n to scale, Figure 2.4: The landscape garden at... | |
 | Marijke Rudnik-Smalbraak - 1983 - 296 pages
...Arch to bend, To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; In all, let Nature never be forgot. Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall, How breaks or now directs, th'intending Lines; Paints as you plant, and, as you work,... | |
 | James M. Heath - 1984 - 208 pages
...He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, Surprizes, varies, and conceals the Bounds. Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th' ambitious Hill the Heav'n to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the... | |
 | Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - 1988 - 286 pages
...Alexander Pope advised his patron, Lord Burlington, and other enthusiastic gardeners of the day to Consult the Genius of the Place in all, That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall. . . . But by this time the snakes and dragons and tigers of old lived only in metaphor... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 pages
...the English landscape movement, whose guiding principle had been formulated by Pope himself: Consult the Genius of the Place in all That tells the waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th'ainhitions hill the Heai>'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the... | |
 | Mara Miller - 1993 - 252 pages
...best, the design exploits the features of the site aesthetically. As Alexander Pope suggested: Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th'ambitious Hill the heav'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the... | |
 | Edward S. Casey - 1993 - 444 pages
...to bend, / To swell the Terras, or to sink the Grot; / in all, let Nature never be forgot. / Consult the Genius of the Place in all, / That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall." 75. Cf. Edmund Husserl, Ideas I, trans. WRB Gibson (New York: Collier, 1956), sees.... | |
 | Diane Heilenman - 1994 - 266 pages
...countryside. Alexander Pope, an eighteenth-century man of letters and a gardener, commands us still: Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th'ambitious Hill the heavens to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the... | |
 | Carolyn Ann Young - 1995 - 228 pages
..."Epistle to the Earl of Burlington" (1732, argument of the use of riches, 11. 57-64) advised: Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th' ambitious Hill the heav'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the... | |
 | Judith K. Major - 1997 - 268 pages
...never to lose sight of good sense." Downing did not actually quote Pope's well-known lines: Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall, Or helps th'ambitious Hill the heav'ns to scale, Or scoops in circling theatres the... | |
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