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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... whole conception of it seems impossibly remote from the time we live in , and as a method of covering in a large floor space amazingly inefficient and wasteful . The comparison of classic to the palm tree as ' elegant but never ...
... whole conception of it seems impossibly remote from the time we live in , and as a method of covering in a large floor space amazingly inefficient and wasteful . The comparison of classic to the palm tree as ' elegant but never ...
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... whole cast of Wren's temperament , his traditions and associations , were entirely different from those of Chambers and Gandon , but our young heroes regard the work of the 18th century as vieux jeu , fit only to be lumped together and ...
... whole cast of Wren's temperament , his traditions and associations , were entirely different from those of Chambers and Gandon , but our young heroes regard the work of the 18th century as vieux jeu , fit only to be lumped together and ...
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... whole history of archi- tecture behind it modern English architecture may be looked upon as the immediate product of the Greek and Gothic revivals . ' If this were really so , the result could only be a hopeless jumble of incongruous ...
... whole history of archi- tecture behind it modern English architecture may be looked upon as the immediate product of the Greek and Gothic revivals . ' If this were really so , the result could only be a hopeless jumble of incongruous ...
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... whole the most capable man that I ever knew . ' Philip Webb in quite another way was scarcely less remarkable . His sincere enthusiasm for his art , the austere reticence of his design , and his complete and splendid unworldliness ...
... whole the most capable man that I ever knew . ' Philip Webb in quite another way was scarcely less remarkable . His sincere enthusiasm for his art , the austere reticence of his design , and his complete and splendid unworldliness ...
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... whole range of the art . Architecture is a very complex art , and cannot be treated on a single issue . It is , after all , the art of building under definite conditions and with a definite purpose , and that implies the adaptation of ...
... whole range of the art . Architecture is a very complex art , and cannot be treated on a single issue . It is , after all , the art of building under definite conditions and with a definite purpose , and that implies the adaptation of ...
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