...ftudies fituation and convenience ; and pretends not to level hills, or to force and diftort nature j but to help it, as he finds it, without letting art be feen in his works, where he can poffibly avoid it. For he fays, He would rather let a ftranger be pleafed...

...has. Should you like it, Lucy, were he your brother ? I really think his sisters are too acquiescent. He has a great taste, the doctor tells us, yet not...would rather let a stranger be pleased with what he as if it were always so; than to obtain comparative by informing him what it was in its former situation....

...1753) there are two interesting passages concerning the estate of Sir Charles. It was his aim not " to force and distort nature, but to help it as he...seen in his works, where he can possibly avoid it (2: 276). A part of the estate was evidently laid out according to the ideas of Kent and Brown, but...

...1753) there are two interesting passages concerning the estate of Sir Charles. It was his aim not " to force and distort nature, but to help it as he...seen in his works, where he can possibly avoid it (2: 276). A part of the estate was evidently laid out according to the ideas of Kent and Brown, but...

...Parallele zu Smollett, H. CI. I, 33, vgl. oben S. 9 f. »to force and distort nature, but to help it, äs he finds it, without letting art be seen in his works, where he can possibly avoid it«.1) Das Wort »romantic«, dessen Sinn anfänglich noch ein unbe* stimmter war, und das von Smollett...

...horticultural projects. Earlier in the novel Dr. Bartlett testifies to his patron's 'great taste' which was 'not an expensive one; for he studies situation and...seen in his works, where he can possibly avoid it' (II, 160-61). In brief, Grandison's conviction is that 'Art was to be put the handmaid of Nature' (III,...

...expensive one' (II. 160- 1 ) . Sir Charles like Darcy 'will not force and distort nature; but . . . help it, as he finds it, without letting art be seen in his works, if he can possibly avoid it' . Darcy's taste is 'neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendor,...

...property. Sir Charles's taste in landscaping is described for Harriet long before she ever sees his estate: "He has a great taste, the doctor tells us, yet not...seen in his works, where he can possibly avoid it." The descriptions of the gardens of Grandison-hall themselves show much less of a focus on nature than...