London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 670
ay copied, not as plagiarists,but as poets. As a singular, and at the same time beautiful,specimen of the earliest amalgamation of the styles, I give anexample of a window from an old palace at Bologna. (See Jig.284.) Here we have the Gothic disposition of parts still perfect,but modified in form,… … many of which, with all their beautiful designs still fresh, existedin the time of Raphael. Many beautiful conceptions were realised about this period;when, freed from the trammels of any fixed school, the fancy of thearchitect was alone his guide, but always governed bv simpleand pure principles,…
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