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 140
her, as the high groundresists, or the low ground invites its course : these circumstancesin natural rivers should be carefully imitated in those of art, SQ and not only the effects, but even the causes, if possible, shouldbe counterfeited, especially in the form of the shores: thus theconvex side… … There is another circumstance, with respect to lines, deservingattention. The course of a river may frequently shew two ormore different bends, which do not so intersect each other as toimpede the view along it; and these may be increased in propor-tion to the breadth of the river: but in a road,…
