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... 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 the world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full 3.
... 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 the world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full 3.
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An Essay Horace Walpole. world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full of statues by Girardon . It is thus that the word garden has at all times passed for whatever was understood by that term in different countries . But ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full of statues by Girardon . It is thus that the word garden has at all times passed for whatever was understood by that term in different countries . But ...
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... magnificent scale . Thro ' Eden went a river large , Nor chang'd his course , but thro ' the shaggy hill Pass'd underneath ingulph'd ; for God had thrown That mountain as his garden - mound , high rais'd Upon the rapid current- Hagley ...
... magnificent scale . Thro ' Eden went a river large , Nor chang'd his course , but thro ' the shaggy hill Pass'd underneath ingulph'd ; for God had thrown That mountain as his garden - mound , high rais'd Upon the rapid current- Hagley ...
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