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... seen a glimpse of any thing like what he has imagined ; that his favourite ancients had dropped not a hint of such divine scenery ; and that the conceits in Italian gardens , and Theobald's and Nonsuch , were the bright- est originals ...
... seen a glimpse of any thing like what he has imagined ; that his favourite ancients had dropped not a hint of such divine scenery ; and that the conceits in Italian gardens , and Theobald's and Nonsuch , were the bright- est originals ...
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... seen in my life , either before or since , at home or abroad . " I will make no farther remarks on this de- scription . Any man might design and build as sweet a garden , who had been born in and never stirred out of Holbourn . It was ...
... seen in my life , either before or since , at home or abroad . " I will make no farther remarks on this de- scription . Any man might design and build as sweet a garden , who had been born in and never stirred out of Holbourn . It was ...
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... seen at Petworth , where the portion of the park nearest the house has been allotted to the modern style . It is a garden of oaks two hundred years old . If there is a fault in so august a fragment of improved nature , it is , that the ...
... seen at Petworth , where the portion of the park nearest the house has been allotted to the modern style . It is a garden of oaks two hundred years old . If there is a fault in so august a fragment of improved nature , it is , that the ...
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