The Quarterly Review, Volume 246William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle John Murray, 1926 |
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... look to the present . Instead of the assiduous study of the master- pieces of the past , to which most of us owe what little skill we possess in the art of design , the students in our architectural schools look to the master in charge ...
... look to the present . Instead of the assiduous study of the master- pieces of the past , to which most of us owe what little skill we possess in the art of design , the students in our architectural schools look to the master in charge ...
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... look elsewhere than at Lhassa to justify their prodigious structures . In point of fact they seem to have drawn their inspiration from the creations of contemporary German and Austrian archi- tects . Whatever merits they may have they ...
... look elsewhere than at Lhassa to justify their prodigious structures . In point of fact they seem to have drawn their inspiration from the creations of contemporary German and Austrian archi- tects . Whatever merits they may have they ...
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... look down from the scaffolding and see what Gutierrez wanted . The result , presumably in the Baroque manner , is described by Mr Sitwell as a barbaric and tropical interpretation of the icy pinnacles and dripping grot- toes of the ...
... look down from the scaffolding and see what Gutierrez wanted . The result , presumably in the Baroque manner , is described by Mr Sitwell as a barbaric and tropical interpretation of the icy pinnacles and dripping grot- toes of the ...
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... look up westward from the east end , when the whole dome appears to have collapsed on its side like a jelly . Pozzo's vanishing point is taken close to the west end , and from anywhere but the one point of view the effect is absurd . In ...
... look up westward from the east end , when the whole dome appears to have collapsed on its side like a jelly . Pozzo's vanishing point is taken close to the west end , and from anywhere but the one point of view the effect is absurd . In ...
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... look for in the case of the less promising material is that their face should be set in the right direction . As things are , we attempt too much and miss the whole . We enforce premature and often insincere analysis , and we kill ...
... look for in the case of the less promising material is that their face should be set in the right direction . As things are , we attempt too much and miss the whole . We enforce premature and often insincere analysis , and we kill ...
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