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... common luxury , were not so much to be admired as fields and lakes ; and , as in deserts , here woods , there open spaces and prospects . The masters and designers being Severus and Celer ; men possest of genius and courage to attempt ...
... common luxury , were not so much to be admired as fields and lakes ; and , as in deserts , here woods , there open spaces and prospects . The masters and designers being Severus and Celer ; men possest of genius and courage to attempt ...
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... common greens , and had , I doubt not , been cast for that purpose , if this piece of gardening had been then in as much vogue as it is now . " From the middle of this parterre is a descent by many steps flying on each side of a grotto ...
... common greens , and had , I doubt not , been cast for that purpose , if this piece of gardening had been then in as much vogue as it is now . " From the middle of this parterre is a descent by many steps flying on each side of a grotto ...
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... common to see three or four beeches , then as many larches , a third knot of cypresses , and a revolution of all three ! Kent's last designs were in a higher style , as his ideas opened on success . The north terrass at Claremont was ...
... common to see three or four beeches , then as many larches , a third knot of cypresses , and a revolution of all three ! Kent's last designs were in a higher style , as his ideas opened on success . The north terrass at Claremont was ...
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