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 195
manner too oftenpractised by modern improvers. I therefore make a compromise between ancient and mo-dern gardening, between art and nature, and by increasing theheight, or rather the depth, from the upper terrace to the lowerlevel of the ground, I make that the line of demarkation betweenthe… … 133 round the court, is not to be described by painting; becauseevery step varies the position of the several parts as they advanceor recede perspectively. Hitherto I have spoken of the north or entrance front andcourt-yard of Bur ley, the whole of which I would treat onlyas a work of art, and, if…
