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... perfect garden . I speak not of his style , which it was not necessary for him to an- imate with the colouring and glow of poetry . It is his want of ideas , of imagination , of taste , that I censure , when he dictated on a subject ...
... perfect garden . I speak not of his style , which it was not necessary for him to an- imate with the colouring and glow of poetry . It is his want of ideas , of imagination , of taste , that I censure , when he dictated on a subject ...
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... perfect example of this mode in the utmost boundary of his garden . All is great and foreign and rude ; the walks seem not designed , but cut through the wood of pines ; and the style of the whole is so grand , and con- ducted with so ...
... perfect example of this mode in the utmost boundary of his garden . All is great and foreign and rude ; the walks seem not designed , but cut through the wood of pines ; and the style of the whole is so grand , and con- ducted with so ...
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An Essay Horace Walpole. is sought of the most perfect taste in architecture , where grace softens dignity , and lightness attempers magnificence ; where proportion removes every part from peculiar observation , and delicacy of execution ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. is sought of the most perfect taste in architecture , where grace softens dignity , and lightness attempers magnificence ; where proportion removes every part from peculiar observation , and delicacy of execution ...
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