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 226
s its chief beauty from that which cannot easily be expressed by painting; theideas of motion, animation, and inhabitancy, contrasted with those of stillness andsolitude. Its form is meant to be humble, without meanness; it is; and appears thehabitation of a labourer who has the care of the… … Cottage at Blaise castiliEo 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…
