Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 96
en THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE AS A MONUMENT gl unmistakably expressed, by the bold projection of a gran-ite spur from the angle of the pier. There are, probably, few arches in the world — cer-tainly there can be none outside of works of modernengineering—of anything like the span, height, thick-ness, and… … a matter of mensuration,not felt as a poetical im-pression, as it would havebeen if the labors of theconstructor had been sup-plemented by the labors ofan artist; if the shallowstrips of pier had becomereal buttresses, and thejamb and arch had beennarrowed by emphatic suc-cessions of withdrawal,…
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