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... brought closer to us by legend . Greek mythology treated the processes of nature poetically by presenting the first earthly garden ( or paradise ) as constituting a Golden Age in which truth and right , innocence and happiness reigned ...
... brought closer to us by legend . Greek mythology treated the processes of nature poetically by presenting the first earthly garden ( or paradise ) as constituting a Golden Age in which truth and right , innocence and happiness reigned ...
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... brought about in times of crisis . The games were held in surroundings where nature provided a setting calculated to stimulate the religious enthusiasm of the contestants and spec- tators alike . They were events that bound the Greek ...
... brought about in times of crisis . The games were held in surroundings where nature provided a setting calculated to stimulate the religious enthusiasm of the contestants and spec- tators alike . They were events that bound the Greek ...
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... brought together several familiar elements illustrated from past history and brought up to date to satisfy the demands of modern organized industry - the stadium necessarily separated from its ancient surroundings , the ceremony of the ...
... brought together several familiar elements illustrated from past history and brought up to date to satisfy the demands of modern organized industry - the stadium necessarily separated from its ancient surroundings , the ceremony of the ...
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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