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... hundred years . Painting and gardening were so closely allied that they might be considered as one sub- ject . Claude , Gaspar Poussin and Salvator Rosa were gardenists ( Walpole's word ) as much as they were painters . They were the ...
... hundred years . Painting and gardening were so closely allied that they might be considered as one sub- ject . Claude , Gaspar Poussin and Salvator Rosa were gardenists ( Walpole's word ) as much as they were painters . They were the ...
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... 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 the world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full 3.
... 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 the world were half so magnificent as an hundred fountains full 3.
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... hundred copies . The delay , as Walpole explained , was due to his un- willingness to offend certain living artists and the relatives of certain dead ones by his censures , but his tenderness in this matter was overcome by the ...
... hundred copies . The delay , as Walpole explained , was due to his un- willingness to offend certain living artists and the relatives of certain dead ones by his censures , but his tenderness in this matter was overcome by the ...
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