...different sites ; to see how to join house to garden and garden to woodland. Repton says most truly : ' All rational improvement of ' grounds is necessarily...of the place to be improved ; the ' former teaches us what is advisable, the latter what is ' possible to be done.' The more intolerant of the formalists...

...Burke's Preface to Sublime and Beautiful. CHAP. I. CONCERNING DIFFERENT CHARACTERS AND SITUATIONS. ALL rational improvement of grounds is, necessarily,...advisable, the latter what is possible, to be done ; while the extent of the premises has less influence than is generally imagined ; as, however large...

...suggestive of its character, in keeping with the design, and promotive of its convenient and effective use. All rational improvement of grounds is necessarily founded on a due attention to the character of the institution of which they form a part; upon a thorough study of the situation to be handled,...

...their way, that yet figure as absolute blots upon God's landscape, and that make a man writhe as at * " All rational improvement of grounds is necessarily...advisable, the latter what is possible to be done. The situation of a place always depends on Nature, which can only be assisted, but cannot be entirely...

...pre-existing causes in the structure of the human mind. Chapter I Different Characters and Situations ALL rational improvement of grounds is, necessarily,...advisable, the latter what is possible, to be done ; while the extent of the premises has less influence than is generally imagined ; as, however large...

...never see a house the ground around which does not invite plans for itself only." — W. ROBINSON. "All rational improvement of grounds is, necessarily,...advisable, the latter what is possible to be done; while the extent of the premises has less influence than is generally imagined; as, however large or...

...desirability of extensive grounds, is put into question. 87. Cited in ibid., p. 430. Repton also asserts that "all rational improvement of grounds is, necessarily,...advisable, the latter what is possible to be done" (H. Repton, The Art of Landscape Gardening [Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1907], p. 7; my italics). 88....

...accomplish this social purpose. In "Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening," he iterates the point: All rational improvement of grounds is, necessarily,...character and situation of the place to be improved; while the extent of the premises has less influence than is generally imagined; as, however large or...

...external objects, and to trace them to some pre-existing causes in the structure of the human mind. All rational improvement of grounds is, necessarily,...advisable, the latter what is possible, to be done; while the extent of the premises has less influence than what is generally imagined; as, however large...

...she ought to have appreciated Repton. The latter constantly urged upon his clients the need to pay attention to 'the character and situation of the place to be improved' and, as one who saw house and garden as an entity, he was eager to restore the half-way stages which...