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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 224

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uation, where an archi-tectural building is proper, a circular temple with a dome, suchas the temple of the Sybils, or that of Tivoli, is best calculated;but in rude scenery, as on a knoll or promontory in a forest,the same idea may be preserved in a thatched hovel supportedby rude trunks of trees;… … Cottage at Bjlai^e Castile. The principal view from the house at Blaize Castle, isalong that rich glen of wood through which the approach hasbeen made as already described: in this view the castle, al-though perfectly in harmony with the solemn dignity of thesurrounding woods, increases rather than…

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