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 645
LANDSCAPE GARDENING, &c. street, I follow my own. Others prefer still life—I delight inmovement; they prefer lawns fed by their own cattle—I loveto see mankind ; they derive pleasure from seeing the sheepand oxen fatten, and calculate on the produce of their beefand mutton: perhaps, they might… … [Fig. 25;}. View from Mr. Reptoa s cottage, at llarestreet, as improved by him.] small object, aptly placed near the eye, may hide an offensiveobject ten times as large ; whilst a hedge of roses and sweet-briars may hide the dirt of a road, without concealing themoving objects which animate the…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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