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... Nature . Its virtue was to be domestic if not architectural and to be closely associated with the house . Then in the eighteenth century arose the romantic revival , and a new garden idea came into ... natural , Nature and 43 NATURE'S GARDEN.
... Nature . Its virtue was to be domestic if not architectural and to be closely associated with the house . Then in the eighteenth century arose the romantic revival , and a new garden idea came into ... natural , Nature and 43 NATURE'S GARDEN.
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Sir William Beach Thomas. proper was to be made more natural , Nature and the wild must also become more arty . Indeed , the word landscape , or landskip , meant a wild prospect after it had been artisti- cally handled . Like the French ...
Sir William Beach Thomas. proper was to be made more natural , Nature and the wild must also become more arty . Indeed , the word landscape , or landskip , meant a wild prospect after it had been artisti- cally handled . Like the French ...
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... nature is an innocent amusement . ' It was Shenstone who learnt ' to entangle his walks and to wind his waters . ' Is not the whole of England a ' humanized landscape , ' and does not its essential charm lie in the accusation ? ' In ...
... nature is an innocent amusement . ' It was Shenstone who learnt ' to entangle his walks and to wind his waters . ' Is not the whole of England a ' humanized landscape , ' and does not its essential charm lie in the accusation ? ' In ...
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