. The art of landscape gardening. a passage lower than the rooms, for thesake of not depressing their comparative height. Thehall and passages should be rather dimly lighted bypainted glass, to impress a degree of gloom essentialto grandeur, and to render the entrance into the roomsmore brilliant and cheerful. This, it may be objected, is in character with thosehouses which Gray describes as having** Windows that exclude the passages that lead to nothing. Yet I trust these passages will be found no less usefulthan magnificent; they lead to the several rooms, whichform a complete suit
. The art of landscape gardening. a passage lower than the rooms, for thesake of not depressing their comparative height. Thehall and passages should be rather dimly lighted bypainted glass, to impress a degree of gloom essentialto grandeur, and to render the entrance into the roomsmore brilliant and cheerful. This, it may be objected, is in character with thosehouses which Gray describes as having** Windows that exclude the passages that lead to nothing. Yet I trust these passages will be found no less usefulthan magnificent; they lead to the several rooms, whichform a complete suite of apartments, consistingof eating-room, breakfast-room, drawing-room, and library. Therooms all open by windows to the floor on a terrace,which may be enriched with orange-trees and odourif-erous flowers, and will form one of the greatest lux-uries of modern as well as one of the most magnificentfeatures of ancient habitation. It now remains for me to shew that I have not sug-gested a design more expensive than a house of any. Plate XXII. Plan of Bavha Theory and Practice other character, containing the same number of apart-ments. The chief difficulty of building arises from thewant of materials: a house of Portland stone would bevery expensive; a red-brick house, as Mr. Brown usedto say, puts the whole valley in a fever; a house ofyellow brick is little better; and the great Lord Mans-field often declared that had the front of Kenwoodbeen originally covered with Parian marble he shouldhave found it less expensive than stucco. Yet one ofthese must be used in any building except a castle; butfor this the rude stone of the country, lined with bricks,or faced with battens, will answer every purpose; be-cause the enrichments are few, except to the battle-ments and the entrance-tower, which are surely far lessexpensive than a Grecian portico. The attached offices, forming a part of the front, areso disposed as to lie perfectly convenient to the prin-cipal floor and to the private
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