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Excerpt from Essays on the Picturesque, as Compared With the Sublime and the Beautiful, Vol. 1: And, on the Use of Studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape
The title. Itself might have shewn, that I aimed at something more than a mere book. Of gardening; some, however, have con-a oeimd' that I ought to have begun by set tingfiwth all my. Ideas of lawns, shrubberies, gravel-walks Sic and as my arrange: ment did not coincide 'with their notions of what it ought to have been, they seem.
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