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... lord Arlington's garden , on the site where is now the queen's house in St. James's park , thus celebrated in Lat- in verse by Charles Dryden in a volume of his father's Miscellanies . Vide Horti Arlingtoniani , vol . i . part ii . p ...
... lord Arlington's garden , on the site where is now the queen's house in St. James's park , thus celebrated in Lat- in verse by Charles Dryden in a volume of his father's Miscellanies . Vide Horti Arlingtoniani , vol . i . part ii . p ...
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... lord Bacon announced the discoveries since made by experi- mental philosophy . The description of Eden is a warmer & more just picture of the present style than Claud Lorrain could have painted from Hagley or Stourhead . The first lines ...
... lord Bacon announced the discoveries since made by experi- mental philosophy . The description of Eden is a warmer & more just picture of the present style than Claud Lorrain could have painted from Hagley or Stourhead . The first lines ...
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... lord seldom enjoys his expence but when he shows it to a visitor . But the ornament whose merit soonest fades , is the hermitage , or scene adapted to contemplation . It is almost comic to set aside a quarter of one's garden to be ...
... lord seldom enjoys his expence but when he shows it to a visitor . But the ornament whose merit soonest fades , is the hermitage , or scene adapted to contemplation . It is almost comic to set aside a quarter of one's garden to be ...
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