American renaissance; a review of domestic architecture (1904)
Dow, Joy Wheeler · New York, W. T. Comstock · leaf 242
iety.To the human heart by which we live, dependent uponpersonal associations, these abstract discussions meanjust abdut as much as love means in tennis. Harmo-nious lines have merely a negative value, they do notgrate upon the nerves, they do not offend the eye; butunless the personal… … 1 never was so glad to gel home, in my life. Reign of Terror—Its Negative Value Were it not for these psychological needs of ours,one might do much worse, even now, than build him-self a not too grotesque Scaramouch house. Jacobinarchitecture was, at least, symmetrical (see Plate LX),and in plan…
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