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... figure of a garden is either a square or an oblong , and either upon a flat or a de- scent : they have all their beauties , but the best I esteem an oblong upon a descent . The beauty , the air , the view makes amends for the expence ...
... figure of a garden is either a square or an oblong , and either upon a flat or a de- scent : they have all their beauties , but the best I esteem an oblong upon a descent . The beauty , the air , the view makes amends for the expence ...
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... figure , which shall yet , upon the whole , be very agreeable . Something of this I have seen in some places , but ... figures , where the beau- ty shall be great and strike the eye , but without any order or disposition of parts that ...
... figure , which shall yet , upon the whole , be very agreeable . Something of this I have seen in some places , but ... figures , where the beau- ty shall be great and strike the eye , but without any order or disposition of parts that ...
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... figure of gardens among us ; they are adventures of too hard achievement for any common hands : and though there may ... figures it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults . ” Fortunately Kent and a few others were not quite so ...
... figure of gardens among us ; they are adventures of too hard achievement for any common hands : and though there may ... figures it is hard to make any great and remarkable faults . ” Fortunately Kent and a few others were not quite so ...
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