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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 209

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re properly sup-ported by the regularity and substantial manner in which thetown is built and ornamented; yet in more humble situations,the same attention to the repair and neatness of the adjoiningcottages, would confer adequate propriety to this mode ofentrance. Various specimens of this… … If the entrance to a park be made from a town or village,the gate may with great propriety be distinguished by an arch,as in that of Harewood, where the approach from Weatherby,after passing along a straight road intended to be planted oneach side, is terminated by a town regularly built of the…

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