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 292
e, the name of the place caused some difficulty; the THEORY AND PRACTICE, &c. 251 house to which the castle belongs, neither does nor ought topartake of any Gothic character, yet there appeared someincongruity in making the entrance in the Grecian styleof architecture to accord with the house,… … notice in the approach, which is one of the most interestingand romantic* An arched gateway at the entrance of a place is neverused with so much apparent propriety as when it forms a partof a town or village, at least, it should be so flanked by loftywalls as to mark the separation between the…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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