SOME
THOUGHTS
ON
BUILDING
and
PLANTING
,
TO
Sir
JAMES
LOWTHER
,
Bart.
OF
LOWTHER-HALL
.
BY
THE
SAME
.
WHEN
stately
structures
Lowther
grace
,
Worthy
the
owner
and
the
place
,
Fashion
will
not
the
works
direct
,
But
Reason
be
the
Architect
.
Ready
each
beauteous
order
stands
To
execute
what
she
commands
.
The
Doric
grave
,
where
weight
requires
The
Doric
grave
,
where
weight
requires
.
]
In
ea
aede
cum
voluissent
columnas
collocare
,
non
habentes
symmetrias
earum
,
&
quaerentes
qui
bus
rationibus
efficere
possent
,
ut
&
ad
onus
serendum
essent
idoneae
,
&
in
aspectu
probatam
haberent
venustatem
:
dimensi
sunt
virilis
pedis
ves
tigium
,
&
cum
invenissent
pedem
sextam
partem
esse
altitudinis
in
ho
mine
,
ita
in
columnam
transtulerunt
:
&
qua
crassitudine
fecerunt
basin
Icapi
,
tantum
cam
sexies
cum
capitulo
in
altitudinem
extulerunt
.
Ita
Dorica
columna
virilis
corporis
proportionem
,
&
firmitatem
&
venusta
tem
in
aedificiis
praestare
coepit
,
Vitruv
.
l.
iv
.
c.
i.
p.
60.
;
To
give
his
manly
strength
aspires
;
The
light
Corinthian
The
light
Corinthian
,
&c.
]
Tertium
vero
,
quod
Corinthium
dicitur
,
virginalis
habet
gracilitatis
imitationem
:
quod
virgines
propter
aetatis
teneritatem
gracilioribus
membris
figuratae
,
effectus
recipiunt
in
ornatu
venustiores
.
Ejus
autem
capituli
prima
inventio
,
&c.
Ibid.
,
richly
gay
,
Does
all
embellishments
display
;
Between
them
see
Between
them
see
,
&c.
]
Junoni
,
Dianae
,
Libero
Patri
,
caeteris{que}
Diis
qui
eadem
sunt
similitudine
,
si
aedes
Ionieae
construerentur
,
habita
erit
ratio
mediocritatis
,
quod
&
ab
severo
more
Doricorum
&
à
teneritate
Corinthiorum
,
temperabitur
earum
institutio
proprietatis
.
Ibid.
,
with
matron
air
,
The
Ionic
The
Ionic
,
&c.
]
Item
postea
Dianae
constituere
aedem
quaerentes
,
hovi
generis
speciem
,
iisdem
vestigiis
ad
muliebrem
transtulerunt
graci
litatem
:
&
fecerunt
primum
columnae
crassitudinem
altitudinis
octava
parte
:
ut
haberent
speciem
excelsiorem
,
basi
spiram
supposuerunt
pro
calceo
,
capitulo
volutas
,
uti
capillamento
concrispatos
cincinnos
prae
pendentes
dextra
ac
sinistra
collocaverunt
,
&
cymatiis
&
encarpis
pro
crinibus
dispositis
,
srontes
ornaverunt
:
trunco{que}
toto
strias
,
uti
stola
rum
rugas
,
matronali
more
dimiserunt
.
Ibid.
,
delicately
fair
!
These
their
abundant
aid
will
lend
To
answer
every
structure's
end
.
To
Building
can
a
mode
belong
But
gay
,
or
delicate
,
or
strong
?
Why
search
we
then
for
orders
new
,
Rich
in
these
all-comprising
few
,
But
that
the
standard
rules
of
Greece
Disdain
to
humour
wild
caprice
?
They
Fancy's
wanton
freaks
controul
,
In
every
part
consult
the
whole
,
Teach
Art
to
dress
,
and
not
disguise
,
Seek
lasting
fame
,
not
short
surprise
,
And
all
adornings
to
produce
From
real
or
from
seeming
use
—
From
real
or
from
seeming
use
,
]
—
quemadmodum
mutuli
canthe
riorum
projecturae
serunt
imaginem
,
sie
in
Ionicis
denticuli
ex
projecturis
asserum
habent
imitationem
.
Itaque
in
Graecis
operibus
nemo
sub
mu
tulo
denticulos
constituit
:
non
enim
possunt
subtus
cantherios
asseres
esse
.
Quod
ergo
supra
cantherios
&
templa
in
veritate
debet
esse
colla
catum
,
id
in
imaginibus
,
si
infra
constitutum
fuerit
,
mendosam
habebit
operis
rationem
;
&c.
,
The
place's
genius
to
revere
,
And
,
as
he
bids
,
the
structure
rear
.
Smiles
he
o'er
fragrant
Flora's
bloom
?
Ne'er
shock
him
with
a
grotto's
gloom
.
Nor
with
smooth
slender
columns
mock
His
roughness
in
the
rugged
rock
.
Nor
by
trim
steps
hand
gently
down
,
(
Like
dainty
dames
in
formal
town
)
The
nimble
Naiades
,
who
bound
O'er
native
rocks
with
sprightly
sound
.
Nor
roving
Dryades
confine
Precisely
to
a
single
line
,
Strait
,
circular
,
or
serpentine
.
All
forms
arise
at
nature's
call
,
And
use
can
beauty
give
to
all
.
None
e'er
disgust
the
judging
mind
,
When
vary'd
well
,
or
well
combin'd
.
This
Lowther's
noble
planter
knew
,
And
kept
it
in
his
constant
view
.
So
sweetly
wild
his
woods
are
strown
,
Nature
mistakes
them
for
her
own
,
Yet
all
to
proper
soil
and
site
So
suited
,
doubly
they
delight
.
While
tender
plants
in
vales
repose
,
Where
the
mild
zephyr
only
blows
,
Embattled
firs
bleak
hills
adorn
,
Under
whose
safeguard
smiles
the
corn
.
Who
builds
or
plants
,
this
rule
should
know
,
From
truth
From
truth
,
&c.
]
—
quod
non
potest
in
veritate
fieri
,
id
non
puta
verunt
in
imaginibus
factum
,
posse
certam
rationem
habere
.
Omnia
enim
certa
proprictate
,
&
à
veris
naturae
deductis
moribus
,
traduxe
runt
in
operum
perfectiones
:
&
ea
probaverunt
,
quorum
explicationes
in
disputationibus
rationem
possunt
habere
veritatis
.
Vitruv
.
lib.
iv
.
c.
ii
.
p.
67.
edit.
de
Laet
.
and
use
—
and
use
,
&c.
]
See
the
idea
of
beauty
explained
by
the
great
Dr.
Berkley
in
the
Minute
Philosopher
,
dial
.
iii
.
sect.
viii
,
ix
.
edit.
3
,
1752.
all
beauties
flow
.