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... reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of king William . In one passage above , Pliny * The English gardens described by Hentzner in the reign of Elizabeth are exact copies of those of Pliny . In that at Whitehall was a ...
... reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of king William . In one passage above , Pliny * The English gardens described by Hentzner in the reign of Elizabeth are exact copies of those of Pliny . In that at Whitehall was a ...
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... reign here on its verdant throne , original by its elegant simplicity , and proud of no other * In particular , he inverted the volutes of the Ionic order . art than that of softening nature's harshnesses and copying her 64.
... reign here on its verdant throne , original by its elegant simplicity , and proud of no other * In particular , he inverted the volutes of the Ionic order . art than that of softening nature's harshnesses and copying her 64.
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... reign ( the period I had marked to this work ) the history of our arts and artists , * from the earliest æra in which we can be said to have had either . Though there have been only gleams of light and flashes of genius , rather than ...
... reign ( the period I had marked to this work ) the history of our arts and artists , * from the earliest æra in which we can be said to have had either . Though there have been only gleams of light and flashes of genius , rather than ...
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