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 218
d, in speaking of decorations. * That I may not appear too severe in my comments upon those fanciful formscalled Gothic, I am not ashamed to acknowledge that when I first retired into thecountry, I began the improvements to my own residence in Norfolk, by putting asharp pointed window in a cottage… … It is not sufficien^ that a building should be in just propor-tions with itself, it should bear some relative proportion to theobjects near it. The example here given is the Doric porticoat Stoke Park, in Herefordshire, where the size of the budd-iuo^ was regulated by a large oak and a young…
