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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 536

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he beauties of nature, asa relief from the severer duties of his arduous situation. FRAGMENTS ON THE THEORY, &c. 495 may be used as an example of contrasts in colour, and inrelative dimensions.* The last contrast I shall mention, is that of cloud and sun-shine. There is, perhaps, nothing more… … [Fig. 203. Effect of sunshine after rain.] Here Natures contrasts art attempts in vain ;Who can describe the joy that follows pain ?Or paint th effect of sunshine after rain ? * In alluding to the contrast from dimensions, I cannot omit somenotice of the power of art over nature* in this respect.…

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