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 190
erhaps this difference may be more familiarly explained by observ-ing, that, when a lark ascends in the air, we have no difficulty in keepingthe bird in sight so long as we continue our head in the first position ; butfrom the moment the head is moved, we have to search for the object again,and… … [Fig1. 45. Scale of feet, shewing-the distance of the spectator from the several objects.] notice, and we generally pronounce that object large, the wholeof which the eye cannot at once comprehend. Hence it is commonly observed by those who have seenboth St. Peters, at Rome, and St. Pauls, at…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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