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... sort , very wild , shady , & adorned with rough rock - work & fountains . " This was Moor - park , when I was acquainted with it , and the sweetest place , I think , that I have seen in my life , either before or since , at home or ...
... sort , very wild , shady , & adorned with rough rock - work & fountains . " This was Moor - park , when I was acquainted with it , and the sweetest place , I think , that I have seen in my life , either before or since , at home or ...
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... sort regular ; for there may be other forms wholly irregular , that may , for aught I know , have more beauty than any of the others : but they must owe it to some ex- traordinary dispositions of nature in the seat , or some great race ...
... sort regular ; for there may be other forms wholly irregular , that may , for aught I know , have more beauty than any of the others : but they must owe it to some ex- traordinary dispositions of nature in the seat , or some great race ...
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An Essay Horace Walpole. have hardly any notion of this sort of beauty , yet they have a particular word to express it ; and where they find it hit their eye at first sight , they say the sharawadgi is fine or is admirable , or any such ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. have hardly any notion of this sort of beauty , yet they have a particular word to express it ; and where they find it hit their eye at first sight , they say the sharawadgi is fine or is admirable , or any such ...
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