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... noble and honest mind indulged in the embellishment of his gardens . I will very briefly quote what history relates : - " The life he led in his retreat at Villebon , was accompanied with grandeur and even majesty , such as might be ...
... noble and honest mind indulged in the embellishment of his gardens . I will very briefly quote what history relates : - " The life he led in his retreat at Villebon , was accompanied with grandeur and even majesty , such as might be ...
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... noble and honest mind indulged in the embellishment of his gardens . I will very briefly quote what history relates : - " The life he led in his retreat at Villebon , was accompanied with grandeur and even majesty , such as might be ...
... noble and honest mind indulged in the embellishment of his gardens . I will very briefly quote what history relates : - " The life he led in his retreat at Villebon , was accompanied with grandeur and even majesty , such as might be ...
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... noble mansion , which Plot has given us a plate of ; and Rea , in this folio , enumerates those plants , fruits , and flowers , which he thinks this then - intended garden ought to be furnished with ; and a small bit , or piece or ...
... noble mansion , which Plot has given us a plate of ; and Rea , in this folio , enumerates those plants , fruits , and flowers , which he thinks this then - intended garden ought to be furnished with ; and a small bit , or piece or ...
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Samuel Felton. your most accomplished lady , and that noble family from whence she is descended . I should here add my prayers for your honour's preservation , did I not reserve them for my morning sacrifice , daily to be presented to ...
Samuel Felton. your most accomplished lady , and that noble family from whence she is descended . I should here add my prayers for your honour's preservation , did I not reserve them for my morning sacrifice , daily to be presented to ...
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... noble poet : What is the end of fame ? ' tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper ; To have , when the original is dust , A name , a wretched picture , and worse bust . TIMOTHY NOURSE , whose " Campania Foelix , " 8vo . 1700 ...
... noble poet : What is the end of fame ? ' tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper ; To have , when the original is dust , A name , a wretched picture , and worse bust . TIMOTHY NOURSE , whose " Campania Foelix , " 8vo . 1700 ...
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adorned Anet appears in Watts's attachment to gardens AUTHORS ON GARDENING Beale beauty behold Brit cendants Claude Mollet colours countenance Cradock delightful died duke Earl edition elegant embellished Encyclopædia of Gardening ENGLISH AUTHORS engraved esteemed Evelyn excellent fleurs Flora flowers fruit trees genius Hartlib hath Henry Herefordshire History of Gardening honest honour Hoxton ingenious Jardinage John Rea justly Lady Gerard letters lived London Lord Lord Chancellor Bacon Louis Louis XIII magnificence Mason memory mentioned Mollet nature Nichols nihil noble Nouveau Dict observes Olivier de Serres Orchards ornamented parterres persons Philip Miller plants pleasant pleasure Pope PORTRAITS OF ENGLISH prefixed principle of charity published Quintinye Rapin reader realized painting rich rural Saint Germain-en-laye says smell speaks Sully sunne sweet Switzer taste terrace Thomas Whateley tion tract Uvedale Price walk Watts's Bibl Weston William Gilpin woods wrote Le Jardin