. The art of landscape gardening. e architecture; since the play of light and shadow inGothic structures must proceed from those bold projec-tions, either of towers or buttresses, which cause strongshadows in a perpendicular direction : at the same timethe horizontal line of roof is broken into an irregularsurface by the pinnacles, turrets, and battlements thatform the principal enrichment of Gothic architecture;which becomes, therefore, peculiarly adapted to thosesituations where the shape of the ground occasionallyhides the lower part of the building, while its roof isrelieved by trees, whos
. The art of landscape gardening. e architecture; since the play of light and shadow inGothic structures must proceed from those bold projec-tions, either of towers or buttresses, which cause strongshadows in a perpendicular direction : at the same timethe horizontal line of roof is broken into an irregularsurface by the pinnacles, turrets, and battlements thatform the principal enrichment of Gothic architecture;which becomes, therefore, peculiarly adapted to thosesituations where the shape of the ground occasionallyhides the lower part of the building, while its roof isrelieved by trees, whose forms contrast with those ofthe Gothic outline. As this observation is new, and may, perhaps, bethought too fanciful, I must appeal to the eye, by the helpof the illustration [Plate i], which I hope will find thatmy observation is not wholly chimerical; and will, con-sequently, lay the foundation for this general principle ;viz. that the lines of Gothic buildings are contrastedwith round-headed trees; or, as Milton observes,—.
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