Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds. Adapted to North America (1847)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New York : Wiley and Putnam · leaf 42
ances that on the left; that is, though not in shape,yet in bulk and in the mass of composition ; while in Fig. 2,which is a uniform or regular building, the portion to the rightbalances that on the left both in form and bulk. Now almostall persons, who have not cultivated a taste for… … [Figure 2.] but with more cultivated minds the taste and imagination areactive, and call for a more lively and varied kind of beauty,and the irregular building would be chosen, as affording moreintense and enduring pleasure. As the principles of Harmony, Variety, &c, are intimatelyconnected…
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