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... steps , & as many walls & terrasses ; and so many iron gates , that we recollect those ancient romances , in which every entrance was guarded by nymphs or dragons . At lady Orford's at Piddletown in Dorsetshire , there was , when my ...
... steps , & as many walls & terrasses ; and so many iron gates , that we recollect those ancient romances , in which every entrance was guarded by nymphs or dragons . At lady Orford's at Piddletown in Dorsetshire , there was , when my ...
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... step to all that has followed , was ( I believe the first thought was Bridgman's ) the destruction of walls for boundaries , and the invention of fossés - an attempt then deemed so astonishing , that the common people called them Ha ...
... step to all that has followed , was ( I believe the first thought was Bridgman's ) the destruction of walls for boundaries , and the invention of fossés - an attempt then deemed so astonishing , that the common people called them Ha ...
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... step that was made , pointed out new beauties & inspired new ideas . At that moment appeared Kent , painter enough to taste the charms of land- scape , bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate , and born with a genius to ...
... step that was made , pointed out new beauties & inspired new ideas . At that moment appeared Kent , painter enough to taste the charms of land- scape , bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate , and born with a genius to ...
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