The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 4Ingram, Cooke, 1854 |
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Page 14
... gardens at Stowe . These have done more for him with posterity than the peerage or the army , though he was an opulent baron of an old family , and a brave soldier . The Temples were seated at Stowe in the time of Edward VI . , and from ...
... gardens at Stowe . These have done more for him with posterity than the peerage or the army , though he was an opulent baron of an old family , and a brave soldier . The Temples were seated at Stowe in the time of Edward VI . , and from ...
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... Gardens , to the memory of her husband . This is one of the most conspicuous objects in the gardens , being 115 feet high , and surmounted by a statue the size of life . It is inscribed , " To Richard Lord Viscount Cobham , Field ...
... Gardens , to the memory of her husband . This is one of the most conspicuous objects in the gardens , being 115 feet high , and surmounted by a statue the size of life . It is inscribed , " To Richard Lord Viscount Cobham , Field ...
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... gardening , first illustrated on this spot . " The lines from Pope , comme- morative of the beauty of Stowe , and the virtues of Cobham , are also cut on the pillar : - " And you brave Cobham , to the latest breath , Shall feel your ...
... gardening , first illustrated on this spot . " The lines from Pope , comme- morative of the beauty of Stowe , and the virtues of Cobham , are also cut on the pillar : - " And you brave Cobham , to the latest breath , Shall feel your ...
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... gardens ; and Gay , Swift , and Arbuthnot constituted themselves superintendents of the house- hold . " Was ever villa so honoured before ? In 1785 ( having lost her un- congenial husband , Lord Suffolk , in 1733 ) , " Chloe " married ...
... gardens ; and Gay , Swift , and Arbuthnot constituted themselves superintendents of the house- hold . " Was ever villa so honoured before ? In 1785 ( having lost her un- congenial husband , Lord Suffolk , in 1733 ) , " Chloe " married ...
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... gardening , where all must be adapted to the genius and use of the place , and the beauties not forced into it , but resulting from it , ver . 47 . How men are disappointed in their most expensive undertakings , for want of this true ...
... gardening , where all must be adapted to the genius and use of the place , and the beauties not forced into it , but resulting from it , ver . 47 . How men are disappointed in their most expensive undertakings , for want of this true ...
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