Excerpt from Paul Hentzner's Travels in England, During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Not to anticipate the entertainment of the reader, I fiiall make but one morereflection. We are apt to think that fit William Temple, and king William, were in a manner the introducers of gardening into England: by the defcription of lord Burleigh's gardens at Theobalds, and of thofe at Nonfuch, we find that the magni ficent, though falfe, taf'te, was known here as early as the reigns of Henry VIII. And his daughter. There is fcarce ...
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Excerpt from Paul Hentzner's Travels in England, During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Not to anticipate the entertainment of the reader, I fiiall make but one morereflection. We are apt to think that fit William Temple, and king William, were in a manner the introducers of gardening into England: by the defcription of lord Burleigh's gardens at Theobalds, and of thofe at Nonfuch, we find that the magni ficent, though falfe, taf'te, was known here as early as the reigns of Henry VIII. And his daughter. There is fcarce an unnatural and fumptuous impropriety at Verfailles, which we do not find in Hentzner's de fcription of the gardens above mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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