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... square enclosures formed by trellis - work , and espali- ers , * and regularly ornamented with vases , foun- tains and careatides , elegantly symmetrical , and The fact is indubitable , is recorded by a most admired classic , and yet ...
... square enclosures formed by trellis - work , and espali- ers , * and regularly ornamented with vases , foun- tains and careatides , elegantly symmetrical , and The fact is indubitable , is recorded by a most admired classic , and yet ...
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... square gardens enclosed with walls was thus established , to the exclusion of nature and prospect , * pomp and solitude combined to call for something that might enrich and enliven the insipid and unan- imated partition . Fountains ...
... square gardens enclosed with walls was thus established , to the exclusion of nature and prospect , * pomp and solitude combined to call for something that might enrich and enliven the insipid and unan- imated partition . Fountains ...
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... square , with an enfilade of correspondent gates ; and before you arrived at these , you passed a narrow gut between two stone terrasses , above your head , and which were crowned by a line of pyramidal yews . A bowling - green was all ...
... square , with an enfilade of correspondent gates ; and before you arrived at these , you passed a narrow gut between two stone terrasses , above your head , and which were crowned by a line of pyramidal yews . A bowling - green was all ...
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