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Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818 / Fragments 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
(1816)
[Report concerning Ealing Park, continued], p. 83
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state, where the same vieW into the same lawn becomes fire- 'some and monotonous; and where the house and the water is the axis round which we turn, we feel in a manner tethered to a certain point; and it would be a relief to have the atten- tion ,drawn away to other objects more new, though not so beautiful. HAVING classed under the same head of Small Places or Villas several subjects of very different magnitude and im- portance, one more may be added, to which not, an acre be, longed; and therefore it may serve to shew, that the quantity of acres attached does not make a place large or small; and also as yielding a striking example of the difference to be observed betwixt the Scenery of a Park and that of a Garden, blending utility with ornament, and giving privacy to a situation most exposed to the public. A modern Villa, called WHITE LODGE, is situated nearly in the centre of Richmond:Park. This has long been granted by the King as a residence to Lord Viscount Sidmouth. When I first visited the spot in 1805, a small quantity of land had re- cently been allotted from the Park; without which, indeed, the house was before hardly habitable; for, although itwas sur- rounded on every side with varied landscape, and the scenery of a forest- rather than that of. a park, being one of the royal domains, the deer and cattle of, the forest had access to the-
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