

FRAGMENT IX 



CONCERNING WINDOWS 



There is no subject connected with Landscape Gardening o 

 more importance, or less attended to, than the Window, through 



which the landscape 



In some ancient hou 



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dows were glazed in small lozenges, containing the family arms 

 or crest: to this Shakespear alludes in King Richard II. " From 

 mine own Windows torn my household coat:" of course the light 

 was so obscured, that no view could be expected; and indeed 

 in some old mansions the windows are so placed, that it is diffi- 

 cult to make the rooms comfortable in the interior, while the 

 exterior character is preserved. The style of the early Gothic 

 of Elizabeth, when not disfigured by an unseemly mixture of 

 bad Grecian, seems better adapted to habitation than the castle, 

 abbey, or collegiate Gothic. But houses of that date generally 

 consist of a large hall, like that of a college, and one or more 

 long narrow galleries, with a number of small parlours, badly 

 disposed, and ill connected. Yet there is something so vener- 







able and picturesque in many houses of this date 



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deavoured to preserve 



much of tl 



that I have 

 as could be 



adapted to modern uses ; and even in some cases advised new 

 houses in that style of architecture. The example selected for 



