London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 261
lla is built: but the effect of thischoice, when the building is considered the object, is to carry itexactly into the place where it ought to be, far from the steepprecipice and dark mountain, to the border of the bending bayand citron-scented cape, where it stands at once conspicuousand in peace.… … of the scene are kept in the distance, and the villa itself ismingled with graceful lines, and embosomed in rich vegetation.The promontory separates the Lake of Lecco from that ofComo, properly so called, and is three miles from the oppositeshore, which gives room enough for aerial perspective. So…
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