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 453
, that, withoutintroducing any order of columns, or any pointed arches, theeye seems at once to class the former with the Grecian, andthe latter with the Gothic character; and this is the con-sequence merely of the contrasted horizontal and perpen-dicular lines. Let us now proceed one step farther:… … For the former, recourse is had to the best specimens andproportions of columns, pilasters, entablatures, pediments, &c,represented in books of architecture, or copied from remainsof ancient fragments in Greece, or Italy : but, unfortunately,these all relate to temples or public edifices, and,…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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