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““ f taste far distrilnUing statues and urns in gardens is ^ F ' J ® ' - Y Z Z S Z m
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groves nodding at groves, marble fonntiiius, andwaterwoiks {fig. I ■),
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to contrast this representation of par-adise with that given by Maitm m his justly cole-
hrZed illustrations of the Bible {Jig. 15.), published m the present ceutury ; as r f
course each artist wished to represent wliat was considered most beautiful m plcasuio-
Z n d s at the time his picture was designed. Martin’s picture, however, as it represent
a natural landscape, certainly seems best adapted to realise our ideas oi Paiadito -, and
it also accords admirably with Milton’s beautiful lines on the subject, in Ins ParoY»e
Lost, wliich are supposed, hy some writers, to have given landscape gardeners their fiist
ideas o fth e modern or English style of gardening.
1T.VLEVN GARDENS.
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96. A fte r the tmddle o f the seventeenth century, the celebrated Evelyn the aiitbnr nf
Sylva, visited Italy, and has described a niimbci-of its principal g a i S . ’
of stately trees, ¡emSil S L h .w / ih e™ f ih L 4 ? S f a ¥ d w i l d n iL 't s ^ iT E T y ^ r tS n™ '
partletoaS’tho?e7rBotofaUh¥¥lS%¥swL¥” io‘L t“ e 7 .u S “ inf” ta
Frascati “ surpassing, in my opinion, the most delicious p lIcS /e v e r beh? d fo? ft?^
p l e n t i f u l w a t e r s , g r o v e s , a s c e n ts , a n d p r o s p e c t s . ” H e a dm ir e « w a i n E i « ^ u a tio n , e le g a n c e ,
covered with ivy. A most inextrkable labyrmth.” (A Ie ,m iT s% L L r o l " “ sO™) ” toly
97. I n the beginning e f the eighteenth century, Ita ly was visited by Volckamer a
Germ^an traveller, whom Hirschfeld considers as a good judge, and L c iw to Z r o d i f
Volckanier rejiresents the Italian gardens as infc rbr to tliofe of Z n Z 7 n Z t of
supeib alleys, lofty clipped hedges, and cabmcts of verdure ; but, he adds that they iilease
the gi-eater part of travellers fi-om tho north of Europe, more than the lAeneh J a ricm
from the gi-eater variety of plants which they contain, and their a lm o r n e Z t a a i
t a ir ia n c e and verdure. An.oiig the fine gardens of Ita l), he inehides Z s e o f f S Z
Stupigni, and Vigna della Regina, near Tm-in which do not niinoor b. i yenene,
vi.sitcd by Evelyn. The b oauLs ’of most of the Z Z f Z Z E Z e he c o t Z r I Z
h i Z Z F r g Z t Z , “ mZfZf o I T Z Z i l n Z Z Z
98. About the middle o f the eighteenth century, the English stvlc of p-ardDninfr Ynm /.
a house, or m laying out grounds to advantao-e cry httle taste in fiiinishmg
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