The Thames: Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings and Picturesque Scenery on the Banks of that Noble River, Volume 1 |
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The terrace , disdaining the regularity annexed to its name , takes the natural form of the ground over which it passes , as well as the direction of the garden boundary ; and keeping always above the slopes and declivities , maintains ...
The terrace , disdaining the regularity annexed to its name , takes the natural form of the ground over which it passes , as well as the direction of the garden boundary ; and keeping always above the slopes and declivities , maintains ...
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... make out such various and natural divisions , that they altogether compose a consummate picture of sylvan beauty . ... their perspective positions so varied , that the charm of novelty is still added to those of taste and nature .
... make out such various and natural divisions , that they altogether compose a consummate picture of sylvan beauty . ... their perspective positions so varied , that the charm of novelty is still added to those of taste and nature .
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In a flower garden , where all is bloom and fragrance , and where nature appears in her gayest embroidery , picturesque embellishment demands all the elegance that art can bestow ; but taste alone could not have formed the picture which ...
In a flower garden , where all is bloom and fragrance , and where nature appears in her gayest embroidery , picturesque embellishment demands all the elegance that art can bestow ; but taste alone could not have formed the picture which ...
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A natural love of tranquillity , a taste for the fine arts and the more flowery parts of literature , to which not only the circumstances of his early life , but the tendencies of his genius may have disposed him ; and a constitution ...
A natural love of tranquillity , a taste for the fine arts and the more flowery parts of literature , to which not only the circumstances of his early life , but the tendencies of his genius may have disposed him ; and a constitution ...
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The imitations of natural caverns find a place among the ornamental and characteristic objects of modern gardens . ... improved and purer taste , which , disdaining works merely artificial , professes alone to copy or improve nature .
The imitations of natural caverns find a place among the ornamental and characteristic objects of modern gardens . ... improved and purer taste , which , disdaining works merely artificial , professes alone to copy or improve nature .
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| Title | The Thames: Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings and Picturesque Scenery on the Banks of that Noble River, Volume 1 The Thames: Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings and Picturesque Scenery on the Banks of that Noble River, William Bernard Cooke |
| Author | William Bernard Cooke |
| Publisher | Vernor, Hood & Sharpe and W.B. Cooke, 1811 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Mar 28, 2007 |
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