Pleasure Gardens
A pleasure garden is usually a garden that is open to the public for recreation. They differ from other public gardens in that they serve as venues for entertainment, variously featuring concert halls or bandstands, rides, zoos, and menageries.
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Famous quotes containing the words pleasure and/or gardens:
“If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones
And fenced their gardens with the Redman’s bones;”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
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