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An Essay Horace Walpole. watered them , enclosed within a quickset hedge . The whole compass of this pompous garden enclosed - four acres . Four acres was th ' allotted space of ground , Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around . The ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. watered them , enclosed within a quickset hedge . The whole compass of this pompous garden enclosed - four acres . Four acres was th ' allotted space of ground , Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around . The ...
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... upon arches of stone , and ending with two other summer - houses even with the cloisters , which are paved with stone , and de- signed for walks of shade , there being none other in the whole parterre . Over these two cloisters are 31.
... upon arches of stone , and ending with two other summer - houses even with the cloisters , which are paved with stone , and de- signed for walks of shade , there being none other in the whole parterre . Over these two cloisters are 31.
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... 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 screen to ...
... 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 screen to ...
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