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... less desirable places of the imagination such as Purgatory and Hell which may have a less attractive history . Round all these conceptions dogmas have constantly converged . They have been matters of religious belief as affecting the ...
... less desirable places of the imagination such as Purgatory and Hell which may have a less attractive history . Round all these conceptions dogmas have constantly converged . They have been matters of religious belief as affecting the ...
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... less human relationships . In a word , gardens were conceived either to keep unseen presences in or to keep them out . The Chinese , for example , went to consider- able lengths to introduce barriers . The walls of the enclosure are ...
... less human relationships . In a word , gardens were conceived either to keep unseen presences in or to keep them out . The Chinese , for example , went to consider- able lengths to introduce barriers . The walls of the enclosure are ...
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... less private , when leisure is a rarer luxury , when even the usual boundaries of walls or hedges are omitted . In such town - plan- ning the sense of seclusion and personal owner- ship tends to become merged in a common owner- ship ...
... less private , when leisure is a rarer luxury , when even the usual boundaries of walls or hedges are omitted . In such town - plan- ning the sense of seclusion and personal owner- ship tends to become merged in a common owner- ship ...
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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