American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 447
he build-ing; the corbelled stage of thecorner buttresses at the top ofthe tower was over-weighted ; thecornices of the pinnacles wereclumsy, and interfered with thesense of ascent which should haveprevailed in these features; thelantern which sat upon the plat-form of the tower should havebeen… … dignity, and appeared more in scale, if it had arisen more simply from the mass below, and with lessfretting of outline. A perspective study would have betrayed the necessity of many other amelio-rations of detail. But the question whether English Gothic, however modernized and howeversecularized,…
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