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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 295

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[Fig\ 89. View of the Doric portico in Stoke Park, in which the size of the building- is in harmony withthe size of the adjoining- trees.] fore judged, that the best rule for the dimensions of thecolumns was rather less than the diameter of the oak, and this, … [Fig 90. Gothic Cottage.] of course, determined the whole proportion of the Doricportico. THEORY AND PRACTICE, &c. 255 So prevalent is the taste for what is called Gothic, in theneighbourhood of great cities, that we see buildings of everydescription, from the villa to the pigsty, with little…

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