London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 310
be injurious,if the building were set by itself; but, as it always forms theapex of a series of complicated terraces, it both relieves themand gains great dignity by its own unbroken simplicity of size.This general effect of form is not injured, when, as is often thecase, an open passage is left in… … example of this method. The arches hardly ever exceed threein number, and these are all of the same size, so that the crownsof the arches continue the horizontal lines of the rest of thebuilding. Were the centre one higher than the others, these lineswould be interrupted, and a great deal of…
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