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Page 59
... style of the whole is so grand , and con- ducted with so serious an air of wild and un- cultivated extent , that , when you look down on this seeming forest , you are amazed to find it contain a very few acres . In general , except as a ...
... style of the whole is so grand , and con- ducted with so serious an air of wild and un- cultivated extent , that , when you look down on this seeming forest , you are amazed to find it contain a very few acres . In general , except as a ...
Page 65
... style of the whole is so grand , and con- ducted with so serious an air of wild and un- cultivated extent , that , when you look down on this seeming forest , you are amazed to find it contain a very few acres . In general , except as a ...
... style of the whole is so grand , and con- ducted with so serious an air of wild and un- cultivated extent , that , when you look down on this seeming forest , you are amazed to find it contain a very few acres . In general , except as a ...
Page 66
... 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 size of the trees is out of all propor- tion to the shrubs and accompaniments . In truth , shrubs ...
... 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 size of the trees is out of all propor- tion to the shrubs and accompaniments . In truth , shrubs ...
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