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 110edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1931 - 108 pages
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| H. A. Needham - 1952 - 242 pages
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| Horace Walpole - 1995 - 72 pages
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| 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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