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Sir RICHARD TEMPLE , the first Viscount Cobham , owes his historical cele . brity to the poetry of Pope , and the magnificent gardens at Stowe . These have done more for him with posterity than the peerage or the army , though he was an ...
Sir RICHARD TEMPLE , the first Viscount Cobham , owes his historical cele . brity to the poetry of Pope , and the magnificent gardens at Stowe . These have done more for him with posterity than the peerage or the army , though he was an ...
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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 - Marshal of the British Armies , who served his ...
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 - Marshal of the British Armies , who served his ...
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66 the Cabinet as in the Field , and who adorned it by a more elegant system of modern gardening , first illustrated on this spot . ” The lines from Pope , commemorative of the beauty of Stowe , and the virtues of Cobham , are also cut ...
66 the Cabinet as in the Field , and who adorned it by a more elegant system of modern gardening , first illustrated on this spot . ” The lines from Pope , commemorative of the beauty of Stowe , and the virtues of Cobham , are also cut ...
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“ Lords Burlington and Pembroke designed the house ; Lord Bathurst and Pope laid out the gardens ; and Gay , Swift , and Arbuthnot constituted themselves superintendents of the household . ” Was ever villa so honoured before ?
“ Lords Burlington and Pembroke designed the house ; Lord Bathurst and Pope laid out the gardens ; and Gay , Swift , and Arbuthnot constituted themselves superintendents of the household . ” Was ever villa so honoured before ?
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Instanced in architecture and 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 ...
Instanced in architecture and 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 ...
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