London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 405
s can be imagined more delightfulthan the breaking out of one of these rich gables, with itsdecorated entrance, among the dark trunks and twinkling leaves * As in a beautiful example in Brasen-nose College, Oxford. f The portico of the schools, and the inner courts, of Merton and St. JohnsColleges,… … of forest scenery. Such an effect is rudely given in Jig. 127-We would direct the attention chiefly to the following points inthe building: — First, it is a humourist, an odd, twisted, independent being,with a great deal of mixed, obstinate, and occasionally absurd,originality. It has one or two…
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