Garden Architecture and Landscape Gardening: Illustrating the Architectural Embellishment of Gardens, with Remarks on Landscape Gardening in Its Relation to ArchitectureLongmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 179 páginas |
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... things he is apt to be simply dis- gusted with the mess , and cannot see anything satis- factory which is to emerge from this chaos . If anything strikes his eye , so that he recognises it , he is almost sure to say , and indeed feel ...
... things he is apt to be simply dis- gusted with the mess , and cannot see anything satis- factory which is to emerge from this chaos . If anything strikes his eye , so that he recognises it , he is almost sure to say , and indeed feel ...
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... things appear thus to unskilled persons , which present but trifling difficulties to the eyes of experience . Turning to details , most professors will recollect a conversation something like the following . The subject is the position ...
... things appear thus to unskilled persons , which present but trifling difficulties to the eyes of experience . Turning to details , most professors will recollect a conversation something like the following . The subject is the position ...
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... thing required of an approach road is that it should be easy and reasonably direct . People who are hurrying to catch a train or fetch a doctor have little leisure to admire the road for anything but its suitability for purposes of ...
... thing required of an approach road is that it should be easy and reasonably direct . People who are hurrying to catch a train or fetch a doctor have little leisure to admire the road for anything but its suitability for purposes of ...
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... thing to avoid is the formality of a railroad ; but as a road is manifestly an artificial work , why should it not be as perfect as skill can make it ? The first object of a road is to carry wheeled vehicles , and anything in reason ...
... thing to avoid is the formality of a railroad ; but as a road is manifestly an artificial work , why should it not be as perfect as skill can make it ? The first object of a road is to carry wheeled vehicles , and anything in reason ...
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... things which are indispensable to us defy castellated treat- ment . Low sills to windows , and windows reaching to the ground , conservatories , and much else , are at variance with a style whose accommodation seems to have been ...
... things which are indispensable to us defy castellated treat- ment . Low sills to windows , and windows reaching to the ground , conservatories , and much else , are at variance with a style whose accommodation seems to have been ...
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