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 585
re ; but in everyother arch (except the elliptical and the Catanarean arch) 544 REPfONS LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. there is a great lateral pressure, and this constitutes the basis,or first principle, of Gothic architecture ; to which pinnaclesand finials, and other parts, were added for the… … The relative pressure of each is shewn by the dotted liues. Hence it is evident that Gothic architecture will admitof larger apertures than Grecian ; and although externallymore massive, yet it is internally more capacious. It is re-quisite that the resistance of the sides, or abutments, shouldbe…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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