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Page 13
... scene , and , as the ranks ascend Shade above shade , woody theatre Of stateliest view And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees , loaden with fairest fruit , Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue , Appeared , with ...
... scene , and , as the ranks ascend Shade above shade , woody theatre Of stateliest view And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees , loaden with fairest fruit , Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue , Appeared , with ...
Page 248
... scene . When , however , the qualities of ' landscape ' were debated amongst the eighteenth - century critics they ... scene . The garden artists com- posed similar scenes in the natural medium ; the trees were grouped in appropriate ...
... scene . When , however , the qualities of ' landscape ' were debated amongst the eighteenth - century critics they ... scene . The garden artists com- posed similar scenes in the natural medium ; the trees were grouped in appropriate ...
Page 252
... scene with scene , Bent overmuch on superficial things , Pampering myself with meagre novelties Of colour and proportion . The pictorial sentiment was to Wordsworth too artificial and too fanciful , a calculated emotion aroused to give ...
... scene with scene , Bent overmuch on superficial things , Pampering myself with meagre novelties Of colour and proportion . The pictorial sentiment was to Wordsworth too artificial and too fanciful , a calculated emotion aroused to give ...
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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