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CHAPTER V 



The Formal Garden in the Seventeenth Century under 

 French and Dutch Influence : Oriental Travellers on 

 Persian and Japanese Gardens 



Sir T. Browne— Milton— Fuller— Cowley— Hartlib — Le Notre— Evelyn— 

 Shaftesbury — De la Quintinye— De Sdvign^—Bunyan— Ray— Meager 

 — Temple — Huet — Pepys — London and Wise — Mandelslo— Chardin 

 — Dufresny — Kaempfer — Worlidge ..... 94-13^ 



CHAPTER VI 



Decline of the Formal and Indications of the Natural or 

 Landscape Garden in the First Half of the Eighteenth 

 Century 



Defoe— Switzer— Swift— Addison— St Simon— Bolingbroke— Kent— Pope 



Montesquieu— Miller— Voltaire— Chesterfield— Batty Langley . 131 -153 



CHAPTER VII 



The Sentimental, Landscape, and Park Schools of Garden- 

 ing, founded upon Painting ; and the Chinese and English 

 'Natural' Styles, at the End of the Eighteenth Century 



Kames — Spence— Chatham — Johnson — De Brosses — Rousseau — Sterne — 

 Diderot — Shenstone — Brown {Capability) — Gray — Horace Walpole — 

 Watelet— Gilbert White— Adam Smith— W. Mason and Burgh— Sir 

 W, Chambers — Wilkes — Goldsmith — Kant — Bradley — Erasmus 

 Darwin — Cowper . . . . . . -154-193 



CHAPTER VIII 



Garden Design as a Liberal or Fine Art : The * Composition' 

 OF Nature or Landscape — Reaction of the ' Picturesque ' 

 Writers — Eclecticism, Cosmopolitanism and Romanticism 

 in Garden Literature. 



Whately — Prince de Ligne — Girardin — G. Mason — Gibbon — L'Abb6 

 Delille— Young— Uvedale Price— Goethe— Payne Knight— Windham 

 — Repton—Joubert— Alison —Schiller— Beckford—Cobbett—de Stael 



^ —Maine de Biran— Isaac Disraeli— Alex, von Humboldt . . 194-232 



