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... delights more picturesque than the landscapes of Tinian or Juan Fernan- dez ? Yet what was that boasted Paradise with which the gods ordain'd To grace Alcinous and his happy land ? POPE Why , divested of harmonious Greek & bewitch- ing ...
... delights more picturesque than the landscapes of Tinian or Juan Fernan- dez ? Yet what was that boasted Paradise with which the gods ordain'd To grace Alcinous and his happy land ? POPE Why , divested of harmonious Greek & bewitch- ing ...
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An Essay Horace Walpole. hand that planted the delights of Paradise . He seems with the prophetic eye of taste ( as I have heard taste well * defined ) to have conceived , to have foreseen modern gardening ; as lord Bacon announced the ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. hand that planted the delights of Paradise . He seems with the prophetic eye of taste ( as I have heard taste well * defined ) to have conceived , to have foreseen modern gardening ; as lord Bacon announced the ...
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... delights of rural life . Here too his majesty plays at agriculture ; there is a quarter set apart for that purpose ; the eunuchs sow , reap , and carry in their harvest in the imperial presence ; and his majesty returns to Pekin ...
... delights of rural life . Here too his majesty plays at agriculture ; there is a quarter set apart for that purpose ; the eunuchs sow , reap , and carry in their harvest in the imperial presence ; and his majesty returns to Pekin ...
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