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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 498

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the mansion.But as you depart from it into the grounds, though the roads and pathsshould uniformly be firm and dry, so as to secure such delicate personsas may frequent them from rhuematism or sore throat, any labour thathas been bestowed on them should always be less apparent. The cha-racter of… … character. I have seen a secluded ravine, so wild, with fallen rockyfragments tossed down all over the bottom, and so overgrown withweeds and brambles, that the angular holes existing between the masseswere perfectly invisible, so that it became almost impossible to scramblethrough it without the…

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