An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 812
etails of the valley liere obtrudethemselves; and the effect, after passing through a wild country exhiliiting no marks ofrefinement, is singularly impressive. It fills the mind with astonishment and delight,to find so much of the magnificence of art and the appearance of refined enjoyment,amidst… … and a stranger is puzzled and confounded by finding a stream and a small waterfallsupplying a lake on what he conceives to be the highest point of high ground. 1672. The Scenery of the Valley of Alton Towers is not here presented as a model forinoitation: on the contrary, we consider the greater…
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