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Herbert Newton Wethered. Poured forth profuse on hill , and dale , and plain , Both where the morning sun first warmly ... hills , sheep and cattle grazing in a park - like middle distance ; while suggestions are lightly thrown out of ...
Herbert Newton Wethered. Poured forth profuse on hill , and dale , and plain , Both where the morning sun first warmly ... hills , sheep and cattle grazing in a park - like middle distance ; while suggestions are lightly thrown out of ...
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... hills and redeemed by the stately but sombre efforts of nature ; yet an element of gaiety is discoverable which was a welcome change from the dim and confined age of medievalism . To the popes as representing a long line of men of ...
... hills and redeemed by the stately but sombre efforts of nature ; yet an element of gaiety is discoverable which was a welcome change from the dim and confined age of medievalism . To the popes as representing a long line of men of ...
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... hills with magnificent villas , often hastily constructed but preserving the memory of the times when the villas with their spacious grounds of Maecenas , Lucullus , Sallust and the Emperors spread over the Roman hills . At the ...
... hills with magnificent villas , often hastily constructed but preserving the memory of the times when the villas with their spacious grounds of Maecenas , Lucullus , Sallust and the Emperors spread over the Roman hills . At 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