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... beauty of the view from a balcony in Venice - ' Oh come , damn me , Tom , don't be poetical ! ' This may have been a curious reflection for one poet to make to another , but it shows where the danger lurks . And to break away from ...
... beauty of the view from a balcony in Venice - ' Oh come , damn me , Tom , don't be poetical ! ' This may have been a curious reflection for one poet to make to another , but it shows where the danger lurks . And to break away from ...
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... beauty . No one who has not visited that vast rock - garden , Greece , knows what wild flowers can be ; but the bees ... beauty of a Grecian landscape , its austerity , economy and distinction , is of the same quality as the beauty in ...
... beauty . No one who has not visited that vast rock - garden , Greece , knows what wild flowers can be ; but the bees ... beauty of a Grecian landscape , its austerity , economy and distinction , is of the same quality as the beauty in ...
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... beauty is the feeling that there may be less necessity to embellish by art what has already been so liberally endowed by nature . Where beauty is almost excessively bountiful artifice may very well seem superfluous and out of place ...
... beauty is the feeling that there may be less necessity to embellish by art what has already been so liberally endowed by nature . Where beauty is almost excessively bountiful artifice may very well seem superfluous and out of place ...
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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