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Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the Principal Artists ... - Page 258
by Horace Walpole - 1827
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 23

History - 1781 - 732 pages
...and Alken cloaks half veiling their necks; all executed in ftoue. b« he fiill adhered much to ftrait walks with high clipped hedges, they were only his great lines ; the reit he diverfified by wildernefs, and with loofe groves of oak, though ftill within Airrounding hedges....
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Anecdotes of Painting in England: With Some Account of the ..., Volume 4

Horace Walpole, George Vertue - Gardening - 1786 - 360 pages
...difdained to make every divifion tally to its oppofite, and though he ftill adhered much to ftrait walks with high clipped hedges, they were only his great lines; the reft he diverfified by wildernefs, and with loofe groves of oak, though ftill within furroundbig •...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 23

History - 1788 - 734 pages
...heads) and filkcn cloaks hdif veiling their necks; all execuieJ in Rene. he ilill adhered much to urait walks .with high clipped hedges, they were only his great lines; the reil he diverfified by wildernefs.sand with loofc groves of oak, though Hill within Surrounding hedges....
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Annual Register, Volume 23

Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 762 pages
...filmen cloaks half veiling their necks j all executed in Иона. he lie ftill adhered much to ftrait walks with high clipped hedges, they were only his great lines; the reft he diversified by wildernefs, and with loofe groves of oak, though Hill within furrounding hedges....
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 44

English literature - 1782 - 682 pages
...difdained to make every divifion tally to its oppofite, and though he ftill adhered much to ftrait walks with high clipped hedges, they were only his great lines; the reft he diverfified by wildcrnefs, and with loofe groves of oak, though (lili within furrounding hedges....
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Planting and rural ornament [by W.H. Marshall].

William Marshall - 1796 - 486 pages
...difdained to make every divifion tally to its op' pofite, and though heftill adhered much to ftraight ' walks with high clipped hedges, they were only * his great lines ; the reft he diverfified by wilder' nefs, and with loofe groves of oak, though ftill ' within furrounding...
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Planting and Rural Ornament, Volume 1

Mr. Marshall (William) - Agriculture - 1796 - 460 pages
...difdained to make every divifion tally to its op' pofite, and though heftill adhered much to ftraight c walks with high clipped hedges, they were only ' his great lines ; the reft he diverfified by wilder' nefs, and with loofe groves of oak, though ftill ' within furrounding...
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On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise, Volume 1

Mr. Marshall (William) - Botany - 1803 - 460 pages
...disdained to make every division tally to its ' opposite, and though he still adhered much to ' straight walks with high clipped hedges, they, ' were only...within surrounding hedges. I have ' observed in the garden* at Gubbins in Hertford' shire many detached thoughts, that strongly ' indicate the dawn of...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge ..., Volume 10

Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 772 pages
...dildained to make every divilion tally to its oppufite ; and though he (till adhered much to ftraigri walks with high clipped hedges, they were only his great lines : the reft he diverfified by wilder' nefs, and with loofe groves of oak, though fiiii within furrounding...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 9

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...disdained to make every division tally to its opposite ; and though he still adhered much to straight walks with high clipped hedges, they were only his...groves of oak, though still within surrounding hedges. As his reformation gained footing, he ventured, in the royal garden at Richmond, to introduce cultivated...
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