 | Thomas Gray - 1912 - 480 Seiten
...expression of esteem." But he dissuades us from such attempts ; it is " twenty to one that they will fail ; whereas in regular figures it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults." ("Of Gardening in the year 1685. ) a To this letter How replied from Brussels, Nov. 8, 1763. He has... | |
 | Marco Diani, Catherine Ingraham - 1988 - 137 Seiten
...tho' there may be more honor if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail; and it is twenty to one they will, whereas in regular figures it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults."23 stance once it has been found. Obscurity is almost by definition a bad thing. Its employment... | |
 | Sidney K. Robinson - 1991 - 212 Seiten
...there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will, whereas in regular figures...is hard to make any great and remarkable faults." The question of making a mistake composing according to picturesque principles presupposes there is... | |
 | Felicity Nussbaum - 2003 - 410 Seiten
...any common hands; and though there may be more honor if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonor if they fail, and 'tis twenty to one they will; whereas in regular figures, 'tis hard to make any great and remarkable faults."23 Common hands could only imitate the surface level... | |
 | Alexander Tzonis - 2004 - 554 Seiten
...there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will; whereas, in regular figures,...it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults. anticlassicism • deformation • freedom • naturalism • orientalism Sir William Temple 1628-1699... | |
 | 1782 - 774 Seiten
...there fflav be more honour if they fucceed well, jet there is more dilhonoiir if they fail, and it is twenty to one they will ; whereas in regular figures,...is hard to make any great and remarkable faults." Fortunately Kent and a few others *ere not quite fo timid, or we might ft ill be going up and down... | |
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I should hardly advise any of these attempts in the figure of gardens among us ; they are adventures of too hard achievement for any common hands ; and though there may be more honour if they succeed well, yet there is more dishonour if they fail, and... 
