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Page xvi
... sense of rest is sought and found ; and how many cottage gardeners have cultivated , as if by common consent , an ideal symbol in the pure Madonna lily . Birds and some few beasts are more numerous , less nervous and more trustful in ...
... sense of rest is sought and found ; and how many cottage gardeners have cultivated , as if by common consent , an ideal symbol in the pure Madonna lily . Birds and some few beasts are more numerous , less nervous and more trustful in ...
Page 46
... sense : Good sense , which only is the gift of Heaven , And though no science , fairly worth the seven : A light , which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le NĂ´tre have it not to give . To build , to plant , whatever you intend ...
... sense : Good sense , which only is the gift of Heaven , And though no science , fairly worth the seven : A light , which in yourself you must perceive ; Jones and Le NĂ´tre have it not to give . To build , to plant , whatever you intend ...
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... sense in neater lines than when he wrote rhymed instructions to Lord Burlington on garden design at a date when garden art was peculiarly full of absurdities and extravagances . He is particularly severe , very much in the vein of ...
... sense in neater lines than when he wrote rhymed instructions to Lord Burlington on garden design at a date when garden art was peculiarly full of absurdities and extravagances . He is particularly severe , very much in the vein of ...
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