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 327
d in difficul-ties and absurdities; for it is not uncommon to begin byremoving walls which conceal objects far more offensive thanthemselves. When additions or alterations are made to an old house,internal convenience and improvement should, certainly, bethe first objects of consideration; yet the… … [Fig-. Ill, Corsham House.—East Front as altered.] different styles of architecture; and hence it often happens,that a large old house consists of discordant parts mixed toge-gether, without any attempt at unity either in date or cha-racter of building. This was of less consequence, when each…
Landscape gardening · Architecture, Domestic
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