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... reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of king William . † In one passage above , Pliny * The English gardens described by Hentzner in the reign of Elizabeth are exact copies of those of Pliny . In that at Whitehall was ...
... reign of Trajan serve for a description of one in that of king William . † In one passage above , Pliny * The English gardens described by Hentzner in the reign of Elizabeth are exact copies of those of Pliny . In that at Whitehall was ...
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... reign of king Wil- liam , and fell in with the mechanic taste of the Dutch . There was a maze in 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 ...
... reign of king Wil- liam , and fell in with the mechanic taste of the Dutch . There was a maze in 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 ...
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... reign here on its verdant throne , original by its elegant simplicity , and proud of no other * In particular , he inverted the volutes of the Ionic order . art than that of softening nature's harshnesses and copying her 64.
... reign here on its verdant throne , original by its elegant simplicity , and proud of no other * In particular , he inverted the volutes of the Ionic order . art than that of softening nature's harshnesses and copying her 64.
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