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... Eastern culture , which has consistently been independent and self - centred . Owing to the instinct of the East towards a less concrete sense of realities , it has remained more primitive in emotion , more directly in touch with In ...
... Eastern culture , which has consistently been independent and self - centred . Owing to the instinct of the East towards a less concrete sense of realities , it has remained more primitive in emotion , more directly in touch with In ...
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... East is East , and West is West , and never the twain shall meet , Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgement Seat , because actually through the medium of the Cru- sades the garden of the East did contrive to exert a ...
... East is East , and West is West , and never the twain shall meet , Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgement Seat , because actually through the medium of the Cru- sades the garden of the East did contrive to exert a ...
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... East as shown in the Chinese gardens which from time immemorial had been carried to a fine point of conscious yet ... East . French Jesuit mission- aries had sent home accounts of the marvels of China . The vogue of collecting porcelain ...
... East as shown in the Chinese gardens which from time immemorial had been carried to a fine point of conscious yet ... East . French Jesuit mission- aries had sent home accounts of the marvels of China . The vogue of collecting porcelain ...
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amongst ancient appeared architecture arrangement artificial artistic avenues beauty became beds birds built canals Capability Brown centre century charm Chinese Chinese gardens cloister colour court cultivation Cut-work cypress decorative delight Dutch effect Egypt England English gardening fact fashion flowering plants flowers fountain French fruit grass Greece Greek green grotto ground groves Hampton Court hedges Helen Allingham herbs hills history of gardening horticulture idea Italian Italy land landscape later lawns lines manner marble medieval ment modern motive nature never ornament painting palace paradise park parterres period Persia Persian garden phase picture plants pleasure Pliny Pope Reginald Blomfield religious Renaissance Roman Rome roses scene scheme scientific seats shade side space spirit style surroundings symbolism taste temple terraces tion topiary tradition trees Tudor period variety VAUX-LE-VICOMTE Versailles villas violets walks walls wild Younger Pliny