Gilpin, William S.: Practical hints upon landscape gardening: with some remarks on domestic architecture, as connected with scenery (London: Cadell [u.a.], 1835)

GENERAL IMPROVEMENT.

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architecture; for a mansion that does not
require the dimensions of a palace calls for
no sacrifice in its access. Indeed, its irregu-
larity is highly beneficial, both in the variety
of the outline, and in the light and shadow
resulting from it: the want of which is so
obvious in the square flat surface of so many
of our modern houses.

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