Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect: A Lover of Nature and of His Kind, who Trained Himself for a New Profession, Practised it Happily and Through it Wrought Much Good, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1902 - 770 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
acquired acres Avenue banks Basin beauty Beaver Brook Reservation Blue Hills Blue Hills Parkway Blue Hills Reservation Board Boston Park boundary roads bridge Brookline buildings built Cambridge Charles River CHARLES RIVER RESERVATION Charles's charming crowded desirable driveway Eliot feet field forest Franklin Park garden grades grass Harbor interesting Island land landscape architect landscape art lawn ledges letter Lynn marshes Medford metropolitan district Metropolitan Park Commission Middlesex Fells Middlesex Fells Reservation miles mountain Mystic River narrow natural Olmsted open spaces parkway paths Pines plants playground pleasure pond present proposed Public Grounds Public Reservations railroad Revere Beach Revere Beach Reservation rocks scene scenery shore shrubs side slopes sort steep Stony Brook stream Street terrace tion town trees Trustees valley vegetation village walked walls West Boston Bridge woods
Popular passages
Page 371 - Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct...
Page 722 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Page 200 - 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 Vale; Calls in the Country, catches opening glades, Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades; Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending Lines; Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs.
Page 1 - He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice Singing in the village choir : And it makes his heart rejoice.
Page 351 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone. And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye; For out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air...
Page 48 - Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory ; nothing can come of nothing : he who has laid up no materials, can produce no combinations.
Page 220 - Laying out grounds, as it is called, may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting; and its object, like that of all the liberal arts, is, or ought to be, to move the affections under the control of good sense...
Page 497 - We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best...
Page 344 - Readers of poetry see the factoryvillage and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these; for these works of art are not yet consecrated in their reading; but the poet sees them fall within the great Order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web. Nature adopts them very fast into her vital circles, and the gliding train of cars she loves like her own.
Page 646 - Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not, realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.