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Page 215
... artificial water devices engineered by Grilly . These so captivated the fancy of Marshal Tallard , taken prisoner at Blenheim and detained in England , that he declared that the days spent at Chatsworth would be struck out from the ...
... artificial water devices engineered by Grilly . These so captivated the fancy of Marshal Tallard , taken prisoner at Blenheim and detained in England , that he declared that the days spent at Chatsworth would be struck out from the ...
Page 252
... artificial and sub- lime ' semblance of nature , a condition that did not co - ordinate with the sympathetic appeal which nature made to the spirit of Wordsworth . We find in the Prelude that this particular phase of romanticism ...
... artificial and sub- lime ' semblance of nature , a condition that did not co - ordinate with the sympathetic appeal which nature made to the spirit of Wordsworth . We find in the Prelude that this particular phase of romanticism ...
Page 298
... artificial ' with reference to paint- ing ; to speak of a work of art as highly artificial was to pay the highest possible compliment to its excellence and convincing quality . William Robinson , one of the apostles of the new artistic ...
... artificial ' with reference to paint- ing ; to speak of a work of art as highly artificial was to pay the highest possible compliment to its excellence and convincing quality . William Robinson , one of the apostles of the new artistic ...
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