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" The passing through the gloom from the grotto to the opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead up to his mother's tomb, are managed with exquisite... "
The Antiquary - Page 111
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The English Vision: The Picturesque in Architecture, Landscape, and Garden ...

David Watkin - 1982 - 248 pages
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William Kent: Architect, Designer, Painter, Gardener, 1685-1748

Michael I. Wilson - 1984 - 276 pages
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Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine

Ruth Salvaggio - 1988 - 192 pages
...creative architecture as "an act of the mythopoeic imagination," cites Horace Walpole's description: "The passing through the gloom from the grotto to...opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead...
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The Poetic and Pictorial Elements in Works by Five Writers in English ...

Peter F. Morgan - 1992 - 316 pages
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The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening

Horace Walpole - 1995 - 72 pages
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Resemblance & Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture

Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 296 pages
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What Gardens Mean

Stephanie Ross - 2001 - 304 pages
...is Walpole on the experiences that unfold as one exits Pope's grotto and walks through the garden: "The passing through the gloom from the grotto to...opening day, the retiring and again assembling shades, the dusky groves, the larger lawn, and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that lead...
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Alexander Pope: The Poet and the Landscape

Mavis Batey - 1999 - 544 pages
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Alexander Pope and His Critics: An essay on the genius and writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...effort of art and tafte to imprels fo much variety and fcenery on a fpot of five acres. The pafling through the gloom from the grotto to the opening day, the retiring and again affembling {hades, the dufky groves, the larger lawn, and the folemnity 3 iblemnity of the termination...
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The Afterlife of Gardens

John Dixon Hunt - 2004 - 266 pages
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