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... hedges , berceaus , and trellis - work . If his devotion humbles him so far as to allow that , considering who designed it , there might be a labyrinth full of Æsop's fables , yet he does not conceive that four of the largest rivers in ...
... hedges , berceaus , and trellis - work . If his devotion humbles him so far as to allow that , considering who designed it , there might be a labyrinth full of Æsop's fables , yet he does not conceive that four of the largest rivers in ...
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... hedges we cannot determine . * A square and a round labyrinth were so capital ingredients of a garden formerly , that in Du Cerceau's archi- tecture , who lived in the time of Charles IX . and Henry III . there is scarce a ground - plot ...
... hedges we cannot determine . * A square and a round labyrinth were so capital ingredients of a garden formerly , that in Du Cerceau's archi- tecture , who lived in the time of Charles IX . and Henry III . there is scarce a ground - plot ...
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... hedges , they were only his great lines ; the rest he diversified by wilderness , and with loose groves of oak , though still within surround- ing hedges . I have observed in the garden at Gub- bins * in Hertfordshire many detached ...
... hedges , they were only his great lines ; the rest he diversified by wilderness , and with loose groves of oak , though still within surround- ing hedges . I have observed in the garden at Gub- bins * in Hertfordshire many detached ...
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