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... hedges , berceaus , and trellis - work . If his devotion humbles him so far as to allow that , considering who designed it , there might be a labyrinth full of Æsop's fables , yet he does not conceive that four of the largest rivers in ...
... hedges , berceaus , and trellis - work . If his devotion humbles him so far as to allow that , considering who designed it , there might be a labyrinth full of Æsop's fables , yet he does not conceive that four of the largest rivers in ...
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... hedge . As pride and desire of privacy in- creased , the enclosure was dignified by walls ; and in climes where fruits were not lavished by the ripening glow of nature and soil , fruit - trees were assisted and sheltered from ...
... hedge . As pride and desire of privacy in- creased , the enclosure was dignified by walls ; and in climes where fruits were not lavished by the ripening glow of nature and soil , fruit - trees were assisted and sheltered from ...
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... hedges we cannot determine . * A square and a round labyrinth were so capital ingredients of a garden formerly , that in Du Cerceau's archi- tecture , who lived in the time of Charles IX . and Henry III . there is scarce a ground - plot ...
... hedges we cannot determine . * A square and a round labyrinth were so capital ingredients of a garden formerly , that in Du Cerceau's archi- tecture , who lived in the time of Charles IX . and Henry III . there is scarce a ground - plot ...
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