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... seat of various view . Read this transporting description , paint to your mind the scenes that follow , contrast them with the savage but respectable terror with which the poet guards the bounds of his Paradise , fenced -with the ...
... seat of various view . Read this transporting description , paint to your mind the scenes that follow , contrast them with the savage but respectable terror with which the poet guards the bounds of his Paradise , fenced -with the ...
Page 54
... to have been pushed too far . Though an avenue crossing a park or separat- ing a lawn , and intercepting views from the seat to which it leads , are capital faults ; yet a great avenue * cut through woods , perhaps before en- tering 54.
... to have been pushed too far . Though an avenue crossing a park or separat- ing a lawn , and intercepting views from the seat to which it leads , are capital faults ; yet a great avenue * cut through woods , perhaps before en- tering 54.
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... seat of the earl of Halifax , traversing an ancient wood for two miles and bounded by the sea . The very extensive lawns at that seat , richly enclosed by venerable beech woods , and cheq- uered by single beeches of vast size ...
... seat of the earl of Halifax , traversing an ancient wood for two miles and bounded by the sea . The very extensive lawns at that seat , richly enclosed by venerable beech woods , and cheq- uered by single beeches of vast size ...
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acres admired æra Alcinous ancient Anecdotes of Painting architecture artists basons beauty beech bestowed Bibliographical Note bridge cascades censure Chinese pagoda Christopher Hussey Claud Claud Lorrain cloisters dening designed distant edition enclosure expence fantastic farther fashions ferme ornée firs forest fountains French GARDEN AT STOURTON grace grotto groves Hampton-court hedges HOARE'S GARDEN HORACE WALPOLE ideas improvements invention Ionic order ished Kent Kent's labyrinth landscape lawn lord magnificent marble MODERN GARDENING nature Observations on modern orchard ornament painter Painting in England palace Paradise park parterre perfect Philip Southcote piazza Navona picture pines planted Pliny portico prospect quincunx reign river river Derwent royal rude savage garden scene seat seen shade sharawadgis shrubs sir William Temple solitude spot square steps Stourhead Strawberry Hill STRAWBERRY-HILL style of gardening summer-houses sunk fence surprise symmetry terrass-walk terrasses trees verdant villa vineyard W. S. LEWIS walks walls Walpole's WILLTON WILTSHIRE woods