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Page 32
... grotto that lies between them , covered with lead and flat , into the lower garden , which is all fruit- trees ranged about the several quarters of a wil- derness which is very shady ; the walks here are all green , the grotto ...
... grotto that lies between them , covered with lead and flat , into the lower garden , which is all fruit- trees ranged about the several quarters of a wil- derness which is very shady ; the walks here are all green , the grotto ...
Page 33
... architect of the groves and grottos at Versailles , came hither on a mission to improve our taste . He planted St. James's and Greenwich parks - no great monuments of his invention . To do farther justice to sir William Temple , I 33.
... architect of the groves and grottos at Versailles , came hither on a mission to improve our taste . He planted St. James's and Greenwich parks - no great monuments of his invention . To do farther justice to sir William Temple , I 33.
Page 57
... Grottos in this climate are recesses only to be looked at transiently . When they are regularly composed within of ... grotto is that at Stourhead , where the river bursts from the urn of its god , and passes on its course through the ...
... Grottos in this climate are recesses only to be looked at transiently . When they are regularly composed within of ... grotto is that at Stourhead , where the river bursts from the urn of its god , and passes on its course through the ...
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