The Quarterly Review, Volumes 246-247William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1926 |
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... believe , fundamentally wrong in principle . It assumes that there is , or can be , a new architecture - that is , an architecture which cuts right adrift from the past . The idea is about as valuable as that of Esperanto . We cannot ...
... believe , fundamentally wrong in principle . It assumes that there is , or can be , a new architecture - that is , an architecture which cuts right adrift from the past . The idea is about as valuable as that of Esperanto . We cannot ...
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... believe that does not convince . But the illusionist decorator was reckless in his search for ' la maraviglia . ' In S. Pantaleone , at Venice , there is an amazing ceiling by Fumiani , covering the whole of the nave . The rules of ...
... believe that does not convince . But the illusionist decorator was reckless in his search for ' la maraviglia . ' In S. Pantaleone , at Venice , there is an amazing ceiling by Fumiani , covering the whole of the nave . The rules of ...
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... believe of the whole thing forces its way into one's consciousness . The scale and spaciousness of the design are fine , but the architecture is mean , and the final impression is that of melancholy effort to conceal fallen greatness by ...
... believe of the whole thing forces its way into one's consciousness . The scale and spaciousness of the design are fine , but the architecture is mean , and the final impression is that of melancholy effort to conceal fallen greatness by ...
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... believe that there are such things as ghosts with a dis- tinctive appearance of their own and some kind of super- natural reality ( numen aliquod ) , or whether you think them wholly baseless figments of our imagination and fear One of ...
... believe that there are such things as ghosts with a dis- tinctive appearance of their own and some kind of super- natural reality ( numen aliquod ) , or whether you think them wholly baseless figments of our imagination and fear One of ...
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... believe upon the affirma- tion of others . ' If , however , the story was 150 years old , it may have gone through a good many trans- mitters before it reached Pliny . Pliny then goes on to say that he knows one ghost - story at first ...
... believe upon the affirma- tion of others . ' If , however , the story was 150 years old , it may have gone through a good many trans- mitters before it reached Pliny . Pliny then goes on to say that he knows one ghost - story at first ...
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