The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99Theodore Foster, 1856 |
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Page 103
... garden for many ages was consi- dered chiefly as a means of supplying the wants , and of ministering to the luxuries of life . Among the remains of antiquity we find but few traces of picturesque feel- ing ; and of the garden so little ...
... garden for many ages was consi- dered chiefly as a means of supplying the wants , and of ministering to the luxuries of life . Among the remains of antiquity we find but few traces of picturesque feel- ing ; and of the garden so little ...
Page 107
... garden , with which Fortune's works have now made us familiar , and the English garden , in the form it ultimately assumed , present two distinct types . The one is nature dressed by art ; the other is an artificial imitation , or ...
... garden , with which Fortune's works have now made us familiar , and the English garden , in the form it ultimately assumed , present two distinct types . The one is nature dressed by art ; the other is an artificial imitation , or ...
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... garden , might just as logically have been applied to justify a preference of caves for houses . They did not even pause to consider whether the nature they sighed for was within their reach - whether the new ideal of a garden , with ...
... garden , might just as logically have been applied to justify a preference of caves for houses . They did not even pause to consider whether the nature they sighed for was within their reach - whether the new ideal of a garden , with ...
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