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 296
at greatsource of bad taste, to introduce what is called a pretty thing,without any reference to its character, situation, or uses.Even in old Gothic cottages we never see the sharp-pointedarch, but often the flat arch of Henry VIII., and perhapsthere is no form more picturesque for a cottage than… … [Fig. 91. Rustic thatched hovel, on the summit of a naked brow, commanding views in every direction.] There are few situations in which any building, whetherof rude materials or highly-finished architecture, can be pro-perly introduced without some trees near it. Yet the summitof a naked brow,…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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