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... head , and which were crowned by a line of pyramidal yews . A bowling - green was all the lawn admitted in those times , a circular lake the extent of magnificence . I that rose This , like other silly fashions , which , begun without ...
... head , and which were crowned by a line of pyramidal yews . A bowling - green was all the lawn admitted in those times , a circular lake the extent of magnificence . I that rose This , like other silly fashions , which , begun without ...
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An Essay Horace Walpole. -with the champain head Of a steep wilderness , whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown , grotesque and wild , Access denied ; and over head upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade , Cedar and pine , and fir ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. -with the champain head Of a steep wilderness , whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown , grotesque and wild , Access denied ; and over head upgrew Insuperable height of loftiest shade , Cedar and pine , and fir ...
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... head of hair . If we once lose sight of the propriety of landscape in our gardens , we shall wander into all the fantas- tic sharawadgis of the Chinese . We have dis- covered the point of perfection . We have given the true model of ...
... head of hair . If we once lose sight of the propriety of landscape in our gardens , we shall wander into all the fantas- tic sharawadgis of the Chinese . We have dis- covered the point of perfection . We have given the true model of ...
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