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Sir Uvedale Price, On the picturesque : with an essay On the origin of taste, and much original matter (1842)

Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, Lauder, Thomas Dick, Sir, 1784-1848 · Edinburgh : Caldwell, Lloyd ; London : Orr · leaf 306

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; and were they left to grow wild for someyears, and the wood which might spring up preserved, still their dis-tinct characters would be apparent. In the natural bank, the irregularturns, the inlets with projections of crumbling soil being partially con-cealed or disguised by vegetation, would… … To take it again in another light. Suppose that in the same levelcountry the windows of the house looked down the reach of a naturalriver, both the banks of which were completely fringed with flourishing 276 SIR UVEDALK PRICE trees and underwood—the ground on each side being a flat meadow asbefore.…

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