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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 357

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ima pianura,nella quale e un grandissimo Circo, atto alle corse dei cavalli, e adongni altra sorta di giuochi ginnici. Vi e anche una Cittadella : unedificio fatto ad imitazione dun antico avanzo dun Tempio dAntoninoe di Fanstina, consistente in quattro belle colonne di granito, che sosten-gono il… … best artificial ruin that I ever beheld, though i am far from admiringany such attempt to produce modern ruins, which is at best merely atrick, that must lose all its effect the moment it is discovered. IndeedI have instanced these specimens of Italian gardens chiefly to show howmuch there is to be…

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