. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory And Practice i8i building would have appeared diminutive so near to the neighbouring large oak; I therefore judged that the best rule for the dimensions of the columns was rather less than the diameter of the oak, and this, ot course, determined the whole proportion of the Doric portico. So prevalentisthe taste forwhat is called Gothic,in the neighbourhood of great cities, that we see buildings of every description, from the villa to the pig-sty, with little. Fig. 23. Gothic Cottage, pointed arches or battlements, to look like Goth
. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Theory And Practice i8i building would have appeared diminutive so near to the neighbouring large oak; I therefore judged that the best rule for the dimensions of the columns was rather less than the diameter of the oak, and this, ot course, determined the whole proportion of the Doric portico. So prevalentisthe taste forwhat is called Gothic,in the neighbourhood of great cities, that we see buildings of every description, from the villa to the pig-sty, with little. Fig. 23. Gothic Cottage, pointed arches or battlements, to look like Gothic ; and a Gothic dairy is now become as common an appendage to a place as were formerly the hermitage, the grotto, or the Chinese pavilion. Why the dairy should be Gothic, when the house is not so, I cannot understand, unless it arises from that great source of bad taste, to introduce what is called a pretty thing without any reference to its character, situation, or uses. Even in old Gothic cot- tages we never see the sharp-pointed arch, but often the flat arch of Henry VIII, and perhaps there is no form more picturesque for a cottage than buildings of that. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818; Nolen, John, 1869-1937; American Society of Landscape Architects. Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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