London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 264
diate depthand increased ease, with undi-minished symmetry. But thegreat difficulty is to keep the thing within proper limits, since toomuch of it will lead to paltriness, as is the case indegree in Isola Bella, on LagoMaggiore; and not to let it runinto small details: for, be it re-membered, that… … be no barbarism greater thanof the French garden. Thescenery around must be naturally rich, that its variety of linemay relieve the slight stiffness of the architecture itself : and theclimate must always be considered ; for, as we saw, the chiefbeauty of these flights of steps depends upon the…
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