Romantic castles and palaces, as seen and described by famous writers; (1901)
Singleton, Esther, ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 496
rule, but vast enough to have lapsed back into natureagain, after all the pains that the landscape-gardeners ofQueen Annes time bestowed on it, when the domain ofBlenheim was scientifically laid out. The great, knottedslanting trunks of the old oaks do not now look as if manhad much intermeddled… … < a z a o ao a THE PALACE OF BLENHEIM 391 Blenheim ; but the ground covered is so extensive, and thetrees now so luxuriant, that the spectator is not disagreeably-conscious of their standing in military array, as if Orpheushad summoned them together by beat of drum. Theeffect must have been very…
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