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 35
t beautiful reach of the riverWye which has since been opened. At Oldbury Court theview is opened into a romantic glen by the same kind of opera-tion. At Catchfrench the same thing is advised to shew theopposite hills; and in this instance it may appear surprising,that the removal of a few yards of… … the object at F. cannot be seen without the removal of all theearth between the dotted line and the surface; but if the shapebe that of B. the removal of the part not shaded will be suffi- 11 cient to shew the valley; and it is not always desirable to seethe whole surface, on the contrary, it is…
