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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 XXXVI. Hare Street, p. [232]
Page [232]
,FRAGMENT XXXVI. HARE STREET. OF QUANTITY AND APPROPRIATIO.N. ALTHOUH, during a long and active life, my efforts have contri- buted to the happiness of some hundred individuals, and the em- ployment of some thousands; I trust, that not a single instance can be adduced in which useless expenditure was advised, for unreasonable gratification of vanity; but wealth is never so well employed, as in improvements that display the genius of art, and call into active employment the labourer and artificer. To de- monstrate the little consequence of Quantity or Value, when speaking of the Beauty of scenery, many places have been mentioned, which may perhaps appear too inconsiderable. in a work that treats of Dukedoms and Royal Domains: but I wish to evince, that in many cases great effect may be produced by a very contracted quantity of land, and not unfrequently that almost every thing depends on the foreground. Thus, in the Villas on the margin of the Lake of Geneva (like that of Gib- bon) nothing more is necessary than a terrace, or afew shrubs and flowers to form a frame to the picture" thus also it fre-
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