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An Essay Horace Walpole. world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full of statues by Girardon . It is thus that the word garden has at all times passed for whatever was understood by that term in different countries . But ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full of statues by Girardon . It is thus that the word garden has at all times passed for whatever was understood by that term in different countries . But ...
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... fountain of reason . When the custom of making square gardens enclosed with walls was thus established , to the exclusion ... Fountains , first invented for * It was not uncommon , after the circumadjacent country had been shut out , to ...
... fountain of reason . When the custom of making square gardens enclosed with walls was thus established , to the exclusion ... Fountains , first invented for * It was not uncommon , after the circumadjacent country had been shut out , to ...
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... Fountains have with great reason been ban- ished from gardens as unnatural ; but it surprises me that they have not been allotted to their proper positions , to cities , towns , and the courts of great houses , as proper accompaniments ...
... Fountains have with great reason been ban- ished from gardens as unnatural ; but it surprises me that they have not been allotted to their proper positions , to cities , towns , and the courts of great houses , as proper accompaniments ...
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