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... lines I shall quote exhibit Stourhead on a more magnificent scale . Thro ' Eden went a river large , Nor chang'd his course , but thro ' the shaggy hill Pass'd underneath ingulph'd ; for God had thrown That mountain as his garden ...
... lines I shall quote exhibit Stourhead on a more magnificent scale . Thro ' Eden went a river large , Nor chang'd his course , but thro ' the shaggy hill Pass'd underneath ingulph'd ; for God had thrown That mountain as his garden ...
Page 25
... lines , - from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks , Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold , With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar , visiting each plant , and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise , which not nice art In beds ...
... lines , - from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks , Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold , With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar , visiting each plant , and fed Flow'rs worthy of Paradise , which not nice art In beds ...
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... lines of our ancestors . An artificial perpendicular rock starting out of a flat plain , and connected with nothing , often pierced through in various places with oval hollows , has no more pretension to be deemed natural than a lineal ...
... lines of our ancestors . An artificial perpendicular rock starting out of a flat plain , and connected with nothing , often pierced through in various places with oval hollows , has no more pretension to be deemed natural than a lineal ...
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