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... landscape beauty . No one who has not visited that vast rock - garden , Greece , knows what wild flowers can be ... landscape is circumscribed , yet immense ; the line of Erymanthus and other mountains , of which we had seen the northern ...
... landscape beauty . No one who has not visited that vast rock - garden , Greece , knows what wild flowers can be ... landscape is circumscribed , yet immense ; the line of Erymanthus and other mountains , of which we had seen the northern ...
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... landscape ' they referred to the beauty of nature as presented to the eye in some peculiarly exquisite scene . When , however , the qualities of ' landscape ' were debated amongst the eighteenth - century critics they had in mind the ...
... landscape ' they referred to the beauty of nature as presented to the eye in some peculiarly exquisite scene . When , however , the qualities of ' landscape ' were debated amongst the eighteenth - century critics they had in mind the ...
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... landscape such as excited the antipathy of Scott are sufficient indications of the low level to which gardening had sunk during the early part of the nineteenth century . A revival of interest was therefore to be wel- comed , whatever ...
... landscape such as excited the antipathy of Scott are sufficient indications of the low level to which gardening had sunk during the early part of the nineteenth century . A revival of interest was therefore to be wel- comed , whatever ...
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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