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Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts (1805)

Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818, Repton, J. Adey (John Adey), 1775-1860 · London : Printed by T. Bensley ... for J. Taylor ... · leaf 112

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e continuity of wood, this will increase its quantity; becausethe tops of the trees being partly seen over the opening, theimagination will extend the lawn beyond its actual boundary,and represent it as surrounded by the same chain of woods. I have often heard it asserted as a general maxim in… … 65 greater height by planting, and the valleys so shallow, thattrees would hide the neighbouring hills: but whenever the hillsare sufficiently bold to admit of ground being seen betweenlarge trees in the valley and those on the brow of the hill, itmarks so decided a degree of elevation, that it…

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