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Page 56
... designed for them by the undertaker in fashion , without interfering with the picture , they will find satisfactions on those days that do not invite strangers to come and see their improvements . Fountains have with great reason been ...
... designed for them by the undertaker in fashion , without interfering with the picture , they will find satisfactions on those days that do not invite strangers to come and see their improvements . Fountains have with great reason been ...
Page 59
... designed , but cut through the wood of pines ; and the style of the whole is so grand , and con- ducted with so serious an air of wild and un- cultivated extent , that , when you look down on this seeming forest , you are amazed to find ...
... designed , but cut through the wood of pines ; and the style of the whole is so grand , and con- ducted with so serious an air of wild and un- cultivated extent , that , when you look down on this seeming forest , you are amazed to find ...
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... ( with. * The old front , still extant , was erected by Thomas Wentworth late earl of Strafford : the new one was entirely designed by the present earl William himself . NOTE well be that Bell is the author of this 72.
... ( with. * The old front , still extant , was erected by Thomas Wentworth late earl of Strafford : the new one was entirely designed by the present earl William himself . NOTE well be that Bell is the author of this 72.
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