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 281
II. 240 REPTONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. Hitherto I have spoken of the north, or entrance front, andcourt-yard of Burley, the whole of which I would treat onlyas a work of art, and, if possible, exclude all view of thecountry. But to the south, the prospect, or natural landscape,is the leading… … [Fig 83. View of Eurley with its ancient brick terrace walls ] architecturally finished like the old costly hanging gardens ofFrance and Italy, they might, perhaps, have added more mag-nificence to the house than any improvement which moderngardening could suggest; but they are mean in their…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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