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... surroundings . This brings us to consider another purpose of the primitive garden , to be the sanctuary of the living . Just as the spirits of the dead had their own premises assigned them by the living , so the living wished to ...
... surroundings . This brings us to consider another purpose of the primitive garden , to be the sanctuary of the living . Just as the spirits of the dead had their own premises assigned them by the living , so the living wished to ...
Page 101
... surroundings were exchanged for an Asiatic arena , reminiscent of the exotic genius of Babylon and Alexandria a centre for political agitation , a place for ceremony and justice and , most important of all , the scene of a national ...
... surroundings were exchanged for an Asiatic arena , reminiscent of the exotic genius of Babylon and Alexandria a centre for political agitation , a place for ceremony and justice and , most important of all , the scene of a national ...
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... surroundings are depicted the great feast- ings , the meetings of kings and counsellors , the pleasures of the chase for which the Persian para- dises were adapted , and the playing of polo . Persian paintings belong admittedly to a ...
... surroundings are depicted the great feast- ings , the meetings of kings and counsellors , the pleasures of the chase for which the Persian para- dises were adapted , and the playing of polo . Persian paintings belong admittedly to a ...
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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