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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)
[Fragment XIV. Wingerworth, continued], pp. 63-64
Lodge at Wingerworth. [State A], p. 64
Page 64
64 compliance with the modern fashion of mistaking extent-for beauty, has made it difficult to give the ground, so cleared, the appearance of an ancient park; and we must rather look for- ward to the future effect of those large masses, which have been more judiciously planted, than to the mistaken assem- blage of dots and clumps, with which modern gardening is apt to disfigure an open lawn. -1-. V 6~tto.'t~ke 2¢FbP ~ttt-b ~~
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