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" When the custom of making square gardens enclosed with walls was thus established, to the exclusion of nature and prospect, pomp and solitude combined to call for something that might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Fountains... "
The Antiquary - Page 110
edited by - 1890
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The Garden as Considered in Literature by Certain Polite Writers

Walter Howe - 1890 - 332 pages
...out. to endeavor to recover it by raising large mounds of earth to peep over the walls of the garden. solitude combined to call for something that might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Fountains, first invented for use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw out of the...
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Gardens Ancient and Modern: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-art

Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 474 pages
...the simple fountain of reason. When the custom of making square gardens enclosed with walls was thus established, to the exclusion of nature and prospect,...might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Fountains, first invented for use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw out of the...
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The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-art

Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 488 pages
...the simple fountain of reason. When the custom of making square gardens enclosed with walls was thus established, to the exclusion of nature and prospect,...might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Fountains first invented for use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw out of the...
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The Praise of Gardens: An Epitome of the Literature of the Garden-art

Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 474 pages
...the simple fountain of reason. When the custom of making square gardens enclosed with walls was thus established, to the exclusion of nature and prospect,...might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Fountains, first invented for use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw out of the...
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On Modern Gardening: An Essay

Horace Walpole - 1931 - 108 pages
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Taste and Criticism in the Eighteenth Century: A Selection of Texts ...

H. A. Needham - 1952 - 242 pages
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The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening

Horace Walpole - 1995 - 72 pages
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The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake

Anthony David Nuttall - 1998 - 308 pages
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The Enlightenment: A Sourcebook and Reader

Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 pages
...the simple fountain ol reason. When the custom of making square gardens inclosed with walls was thus established, to the exclusion of nature and prospect,...might enrich and enliven the insipid and unanimated partition. Fountains, first invented for use, which grandeur loves to disguise and throw out of the...
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