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 141
f curve in a walk, or road, will therefore dependon its width; thus looking along the narrow line of walk, youwill not see the second bend: but in the same curve, if theroad be broader, we should naturally wish to make the curvebolder by breaking from it according to the dotted line from A.to B. in… … Where two walks join each other, it is generally better thatthey should meet at right angles, as at C. than to leave the sharppoint as in the acute angle at D. The most natural course for a road, or walk, is along thebanks of a lake or river; yet I have occasionally observed greatbeauty in the…
