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 156
ass under ground, with regulating sluicesor shuttles to keep it always at the same height. Thus the canalwill be totally detached from the river, and become a distinct Earl Harcourt, although possessing great good taste, gives the whole merit ofthis garden to Mason the poet, as he does of his… … 103 object, forming the leading feature of the scene to which itbelongs; a scene purely artificial, where a serpentine canalwould be as incongruous as a serpentine garden wall, or aserpentine bridge ; and, strange as it may appear, I have seensuch absurdities introduced to avoid natures supposed…
