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Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818 / Sketches and hints on landscape gardening : collected from designs and observations now in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally made : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the art of laying out ground
([1794])
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ADVERTISEMENT, EXPLAINING THE NATURE OF THIS WORK. MY opinions on the general principles of Landscape Gardening have been dif- fused in separate manuscript volumes, as opportunities occurred of elucidating them in the course of my practice; and I have often indulged the hope of collecting and arranging these scattered opinions, at some future period of my life, when I should retire from the more active employment of my profession: but that which is long delayed, is not therefore better executed; and the task which is deferred to declin- ing years, is frequently deferred for ever; or at best performed with languor and indifference. This consideration, added to the possibility of being anticipated by a partial publication of my numerous manuscripts, not always in the possession of those by whom I have the honour to be consulted, induced me to print the following pages, with less methodical arrangement than I originally intended. I once thought it would be possible to form a complete system of Landscape Gardening, classed under certain general rules, to which this art is as much subject as Architecture, Music, or any other of the polite arts: but though daily experience convinced me that such rules do actually exist, yet I have found so much variety in their
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