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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... produces on the beholder . ' The use of the building seems to have been forgotten , a fallacy that we shall also meet in Mr Scott's essay . The architect is to be a purveyor of thrills for the onlooker ; apparently he is to follow the ...
... produces on the beholder . ' The use of the building seems to have been forgotten , a fallacy that we shall also meet in Mr Scott's essay . The architect is to be a purveyor of thrills for the onlooker ; apparently he is to follow the ...
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... produces as evidence of this the fact that certain of the Renais- sance architects amused themselves by endeavouring to construct a system of design on the basis of the human figure . Villars de Honecourt had tried the same experi- ment ...
... produces as evidence of this the fact that certain of the Renais- sance architects amused themselves by endeavouring to construct a system of design on the basis of the human figure . Villars de Honecourt had tried the same experi- ment ...
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... produced buildings of real distinction , if only their ornament could be shorn away . These men were never checked by any technical impasse in design , such as in less skilful hands leads to the abandonment of a promising idea , but ...
... produced buildings of real distinction , if only their ornament could be shorn away . These men were never checked by any technical impasse in design , such as in less skilful hands leads to the abandonment of a promising idea , but ...
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... produced the most extravagant designs which became models for Austrian architecture throughout the 18th century . Both these men , von Erlach in particular , could plan , but they made the mistake of planning for planning's sake , and ...
... produced the most extravagant designs which became models for Austrian architecture throughout the 18th century . Both these men , von Erlach in particular , could plan , but they made the mistake of planning for planning's sake , and ...
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... produce a shadow of turning ; and they should have a sense of joyous wonder . To speak thus , you say , is like a child crying for the moon , but that is not so , for all we look for in the case of the less promising material is that ...
... produce a shadow of turning ; and they should have a sense of joyous wonder . To speak thus , you say , is like a child crying for the moon , but that is not so , for all we look for in the case of the less promising material is that ...
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