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Washington Irving
April 3, 1783
November 28, 1859
| A writer, author, essayist, biographer and
historian of the early 19th century. He
moved to England in 1815 and lived there for many years in the UK.
Both of his parents were English. |
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What makes an English garden?
What gives virtue, integrity to an English garden?
The English character gives virtue, the integrity to an English garden.
The writer Washington Irving explains that implicit English character.
Washington Irving wrote in Rural Life in England that
"The taste of the English in the cultivation of land, and in what is called
landscape-gardening, is unrivaled... but what most delights me is the creative
taste with which the English decorate the unostentatious abodes of middle life...
The cherishing and training of some trees, the nice distribution of flowers and
plants of tender and graceful foliage: all these are managed with a delicate
tact, like the magic touching with which a painter finishes up a favorite picture."
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