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... prospect , * pomp_and solitude combined to call for something that might enrich and enliven the insipid and unan- imated partition . Fountains , first invented for * It was not uncommon , after the circumadjacent country had been shut ...
... prospect , * pomp_and solitude combined to call for something that might enrich and enliven the insipid and unan- imated partition . Fountains , first invented for * It was not uncommon , after the circumadjacent country had been shut ...
Page 40
... prospect . ” — Such Gallo - Chinois gardens , I apprehend , will rarely be executed . * On the piers of a garden - gate not far from Paris I observed two very coquet sphinxes . These lady monsters had straw hats gracefully smart on one ...
... prospect . ” — Such Gallo - Chinois gardens , I apprehend , will rarely be executed . * On the piers of a garden - gate not far from Paris I observed two very coquet sphinxes . These lady monsters had straw hats gracefully smart on one ...
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... Prospect , animat- ed prospect , is the theatre that will always be the most frequented . Prospects formerly were sacrificed to convenience and warmth . Thus Burleigh stands behind a hill , from the top of which it would command ...
... Prospect , animat- ed prospect , is the theatre that will always be the most frequented . Prospects formerly were sacrificed to convenience and warmth . Thus Burleigh stands behind a hill , from the top of which it would command ...
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