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... lead our guess to what were the gardens of the intervening ages . When Roman authors , whose climate instilled a wish for cool retreats , speak of their enjoyments in that kind , they sigh for grottos , caves , and the refreshing ...
... lead our guess to what were the gardens of the intervening ages . When Roman authors , whose climate instilled a wish for cool retreats , speak of their enjoyments in that kind , they sigh for grottos , caves , and the refreshing ...
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... lead and fenced with balusters ; and the passage into these airy walks is out of the two summer - houses at the end of the first terrass - walk . The cloister facing the south is covered with vines , and would have been proper for an ...
... lead and fenced with balusters ; and the passage into these airy walks is out of the two summer - houses at the end of the first terrass - walk . The cloister facing the south is covered with vines , and would have been proper for an ...
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... lead up to his mother's tomb , are managed with exquisite judgment : and though lord Peterborough assisted him To form his quincunx and to rank his vines , those were not the most pleasing ingredients of his little perspective . I do ...
... lead up to his mother's tomb , are managed with exquisite judgment : and though lord Peterborough assisted him To form his quincunx and to rank his vines , those were not the most pleasing ingredients of his little perspective . I do ...
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