ABSTRACT
The perfection of landscape gardening depends on a concealment of those operations of art by which nature is embellished; but where buildings are introduced, art declares herself openly, and should, therefore, be very careful, lest the author have cause to blush at her interference. The country carpenter or bricklayer is only accustomed to consider detached parts; the architect, on the contrary, finds it his office to consider the whole. The character of the house should, of course, prevail in all such buildings as are very conspicuous, or in any degree intended as ornaments to the general scenery; such as lodges, pavilions, temples, belvederes, and the like. The Castle Gothic, with few small apertures and large masses of wall, might be well calculated for defence, but the apartments are rendered so gloomy, that it can only be made habitable by enlarging and increasing these apertures, and, in some degree, sacrificing the original character to modern comfort.
