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... Temple to think in that manner . How many Frenchmen are there who have seen our gardens , and still prefer natural flights of steps and shady cloisters covered with lead ! Le Nôtre , the architect of the groves and grottos at Versailles ...
... Temple to think in that manner . How many Frenchmen are there who have seen our gardens , and still prefer natural flights of steps and shady cloisters covered with lead ! Le Nôtre , the architect of the groves and grottos at Versailles ...
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An Essay Horace Walpole. To do farther justice to sir William Temple , I must not omit what he adds : “ What I have said of the best forms of gardens , is meant only of such as are in some sort regular ; for there may be other forms ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. To do farther justice to sir William Temple , I must not omit what he adds : “ What I have said of the best forms of gardens , is meant only of such as are in some sort regular ; for there may be other forms ...
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... temple , a Chinese pagoda , a Gothic tower , or fictitious bridge , he proposes to them , at the first resting - place to erect a school ; a little farther to found an academy ; at a third distance , a manufacture ; and at the ter ...
... temple , a Chinese pagoda , a Gothic tower , or fictitious bridge , he proposes to them , at the first resting - place to erect a school ; a little farther to found an academy ; at a third distance , a manufacture ; and at the ter ...
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