The landscape gardening and landscape architecture of the late Humphry Repton, esq., being his entire works on these subjects : ...with historical and scientific introduction, a systematic analysis, a biographical notice, notes, and copious alphabetical index (1840)
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Printed for the editor, and sold by Longman · leaf 192
lly as it is often forced upon obscure buildings, whereno view is presented near great towns, and oftener is placedlike an uncouth excrescence upon the bleak and exposedlodging houses at a watering place ; but in the large projectingwindows of old Gothic mansions, beauty and grandeur may beunited… … In hilly countries, where the banks are bold, a road in avalley is always pleasing, because it seems natural, and carrieswith it the idea of ease and safety; but, in a country that isnot hilly, we ought rather to shew the little * inequalities ofground to advantage. The difference betwixt viewing…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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