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... Painting in England . ' All gardening is painting , ' Pope said at the beginning of the eighteenth century , and this artistic law remained in force for a hundred years . Painting and gardening were so closely allied that they might be ...
... Painting in England . ' All gardening is painting , ' Pope said at the beginning of the eighteenth century , and this artistic law remained in force for a hundred years . Painting and gardening were so closely allied that they might be ...
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An Essay Horace Walpole. In the paintings found at Herculaneum are a few traces of gardens , as may be seen in the sec- ond volume of the prints . They are small square enclosures formed by trellis ... paintings found at Herculaneum are a ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. In the paintings found at Herculaneum are a few traces of gardens , as may be seen in the sec- ond volume of the prints . They are small square enclosures formed by trellis ... paintings found at Herculaneum are a ...
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... painter , this is the country , or this is the age to produce them . The flocks , the herds , that now are admitted into , now graze on the borders of our cultivated plains , are ready before the painter's eyes , and group themselves to ...
... painter , this is the country , or this is the age to produce them . The flocks , the herds , that now are admitted into , now graze on the borders of our cultivated plains , are ready before the painter's eyes , and group themselves to ...
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