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Page 32
... lead and fenced with balusters ; and the passage into these airy walks is out of the two summer - houses at the end of the first terrass - walk . The cloister facing the south is covered with vines , and would have been proper for an ...
... lead and fenced with balusters ; and the passage into these airy walks is out of the two summer - houses at the end of the first terrass - walk . The cloister facing the south is covered with vines , and would have been proper for an ...
Page 33
... lead ! Le Nôtre , the 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 ...
... lead ! Le Nôtre , the 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 ...
Page 52
... lead men to the most opposite excesses , it could not be the case in gardening , where the experi- ments would have been so expensive . Yet it is true too that the features in Kent's landscapes were seldom majestic . His clumps were ...
... lead men to the most opposite excesses , it could not be the case in gardening , where the experi- ments would have been so expensive . Yet it is true too that the features in Kent's landscapes were seldom majestic . His clumps were ...
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