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... living was suffered to enter into the garden ; and the poverty and necessities of our first ancestors hardly allowed them time to make improvements on their estates in imitation of it , supposing any plan had been preserved . A cottage ...
... living was suffered to enter into the garden ; and the poverty and necessities of our first ancestors hardly allowed them time to make improvements on their estates in imitation of it , supposing any plan had been preserved . A cottage ...
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... living landscape was chastened or pol- ished , not transformed . Freedom was given to the forms of trees ; they extended their branches unrestricted ; & where any eminent oak , or mas- ter beech , had escaped maiming , and survived the ...
... living landscape was chastened or pol- ished , not transformed . Freedom was given to the forms of trees ; they extended their branches unrestricted ; & where any eminent oak , or mas- ter beech , had escaped maiming , and survived the ...
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... living artists and the relatives of certain dead ones by his censures , but his tenderness in this matter was overcome by the uncomfortable realization that he had kept an interested public waiting to complete its sets since 1764 when ...
... living artists and the relatives of certain dead ones by his censures , but his tenderness in this matter was overcome by the uncomfortable realization that he had kept an interested public waiting to complete its sets since 1764 when ...
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