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 99
f architecture being the most calcu- lated for additions or repairs to an old house, I might here venture to recommend it on the score of mere utility ; but * when we take into the account that picturesque effect which is always produced by the mixture of Gothic buildings with round-headed trees, I… … [Fig. 17. Gothic Architecture, or Architecture in which perpendicular lines prevail, contrasted withround-headed trees.] * Instead of clogging all the improvements with the dread of shewing the house, I conceive it possible, without any very great expense, to convert the house itself into the most…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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