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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 82

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est respect; although, in this instance, Idid not adopt his ideas. Every one seems to imagine that the art of layingout ground is within a very small compass, and indeed I once thought somyself; but I have found by long experience, that the closest application,and, I may add, the enthusiastic… … distant views which an eminence should command, and which at Brandsbury are so rich and varied that nothing can jus-* tify their total exclusion. A walk round a paddock in such a situation, inclosed by a lofty fence, would be a continual source of mortification; as every step would excite a wish…

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