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Page 22
... spirits of the dead and the spirits of Nature so that mischievous results might be avoided . The primitive instinct has always been to house the spirits of the dead in a fashion to ensure against their wandering abroad and interfering ...
... spirits of the dead and the spirits of Nature so that mischievous results might be avoided . The primitive instinct has always been to house the spirits of the dead in a fashion to ensure against their wandering abroad and interfering ...
Page 23
... spirits of the dead had their own premises assigned them by the living , so the living wished to preserve their own privacy ... spirit is thwarted by such a devious and circuitous approach . Crooked paths secure the definite object of ...
... spirits of the dead had their own premises assigned them by the living , so the living wished to preserve their own privacy ... spirit is thwarted by such a devious and circuitous approach . Crooked paths secure the definite object of ...
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... spirit of Holland , which had now come to the fore as a prominent European state - the spirit that animated the Dutch painting of the seventeenth century and made it an amazing expres- sion of technical skill employed on a narrower and ...
... spirit of Holland , which had now come to the fore as a prominent European state - the spirit that animated the Dutch painting of the seventeenth century and made it an amazing expres- sion of technical skill employed on a narrower and ...
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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