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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 332

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style ofgardening, such as terraces, lofty walls, almshouses, quadran-gular courts, &c.; a mistaken idea has prevailed, that thehouse should stand detached from every surrounding object:this injudicious taste has, in many parts of the kingdom,destroyed towns and villages, to give solitary… … [Fig-. 115. Ground plan of Port Eliot, and the Abbey of St. Germaius,References. a, Mansion and offices. fc, Proposed cloister to jointhe mansion to the Abbey. c, The Abbey,] lofty situation forbid its being made subordinate to the man-sion. Under such circumstances, instead of shrinking fromthis…

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