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 435
shapes, or were so broken by the deeprecesses of windows, or enriched by the projection of timbergroins in the ceilings, that the eye was amused and entangledby a degree of intricacy unknown in modern rooms. Therage for what is called simplicity, and the common error ofsubstituting greatness of… … DESIGNS FOR THE PAVILLON, &c. 395 painting or sculpture; while large windows, and large piers,and doors too large for common use, have been made thecriterion of grandeur. On the contrary, these only tend tolessen the apparent dimensions of space, because (as in thecase of a large naked plain)…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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