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... cloisters open to the garden , upon arches of stone , and ending with two other summer - houses even with the cloisters , which are paved with stone , and de- signed for walks of shade , there being none other in the whole parterre ...
... cloisters open to the garden , upon arches of stone , and ending with two other summer - houses even with the cloisters , which are paved with stone , and de- signed for walks of shade , there being none other in the whole parterre ...
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An Essay Horace Walpole. in the whole parterre . Over these two cloisters are two terrasses covered with lead and ... cloister facing the south is covered with vines , and would have been proper for an orange - house , and the other for ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. in the whole parterre . Over these two cloisters are two terrasses covered with lead and ... cloister facing the south is covered with vines , and would have been proper for an orange - house , and the other for ...
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... cloisters covered with lead ! Le Nôtre , the architect of the groves and grottos at Versailles , came hither on a mission to improve our taste . He planted St. James's and Greenwich parks — no great monuments of his invention . To do ...
... cloisters covered with lead ! Le Nôtre , the architect of the groves and grottos at Versailles , came hither on a mission to improve our taste . He planted St. James's and Greenwich parks — no great monuments of his invention . To do ...
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