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... sort of thing and is a plea to return to the ' natural ' , as defined by the best contemporary taste - Kent's , Bridgeman's , Brown's and his own . The gardening of this revolt was conducted on a scale unknown to us today . Walpole ...
... sort of thing and is a plea to return to the ' natural ' , as defined by the best contemporary taste - Kent's , Bridgeman's , Brown's and his own . The gardening of this revolt was conducted on a scale unknown to us today . Walpole ...
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... sort regular ; for there may be other forms wholly irregular , that may , for aught I know , have more beauty than any of the others : but they must owe it to some ex- traordinary dispositions of nature in the seat , or some great race ...
... sort regular ; for there may be other forms wholly irregular , that may , for aught I know , have more beauty than any of the others : but they must owe it to some ex- traordinary dispositions of nature in the seat , or some great race ...
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An Essay Horace Walpole. have hardly any notion of this sort of beauty , yet they have a particular word to express it ; and where they find it hit their eye at first sight , they say the sharawadgi is fine or is admirable , or any such ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. have hardly any notion of this sort of beauty , yet they have a particular word to express it ; and where they find it hit their eye at first sight , they say the sharawadgi is fine or is admirable , or any such ...
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