 The measured walk, the quincunx, and the etoile imposed their unsatisfying sameness on every royal and noble garden. Trees were headed, and their sides pared away; many French groves seem green chests set upon poles. Seats of marble, arbours and...  The Antiquary - Page 111edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 474 pages
...seem green chests set upon poles. Seats of marble, arbours and summerhouses terminated every visto ; and symmetry, even where the space was too large to...being remarked at one view, was so essential, that, as Pope observed : ' . . . Each alley has a brother, And half the garden just reflects the other.'... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 474 pages
...seem green chests set upon poles. Seats of marble, arbours and summerhouses terminated every visto ; and symmetry, even where the space was too large to...being remarked at one view, was so essential, that, as Pope observed : "... Each alley has a brother, And half the garden just reflects the other.' Knots... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1904 - 154 pages
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 | Hildegarde Hawthorne - 1911 - 318 pages
...headed, and their sides pared away; many French groves seem green chests set upon poles. Seats of marble, arbours, and summer-houses terminated every vista,...large to permit its being remarked at one view, was an essential . . . knots of flowers were more defensible, subjected to the same regularity. ' Leisure,'... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1931 - 108 pages
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 | H. A. Needham - 1952 - 242 pages
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 | Horace Walpole - 1975 - 626 pages
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 | Horace Walpole - 1995 - 72 pages
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 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 pages
...seem green chests set upon poles. Seats of marble, arbours and summer-houses, terminated every visto [vista]; and symmetry, even where the space was too...being remarked at one view, was so essential, that, as Pope observed, — each alley has a brother, And half the garden just reflects the other. Knots... | |
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