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An approach should appear to be an un- 

 studied road to the house : — 



" So let th' approach and entrance to the place 

 " Display no glitter, and affect no grace : " * 



and its character should vary with that of 

 the residence to which it leads. This variety 

 will be principally marked by its length, and 

 by its embellishments. The former of these 

 distinctions need not always exist ; the latter, 

 I confess, I have ever held to be essential. 



After breaking off from the public road, 

 the approach should avoid any direction 

 parallel with it, as good sense dictates the 

 use of what is already provided, as long as it 

 is suitable to your purpose. The inattention 

 to this rule in places of limited extent be- 

 trays that limitation which might otherwise 

 escape detection. I have seen an approach 

 running parallel with the high road, with 

 little more than the hedge dividing them, up 

 to the very door ; and a shrubbery walk fol- 

 lowing the same line, with scarce a wider 

 separation between it and the approach. The 

 lodge is a high-finished temple, built, as I was 



* Knight's Landscape,. 



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