Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 153
n va-riety of them, a miserable compromise by which classic details of theclumsiest description were grafted on buildings supported by the Tudorarch and crowned with the Tudor gable. It is, he continued, perhapsthe bizarre and picturesque, character of this bastard style which still ren-ders it… … Eastlake Diuing-table. the glories of old England. In the same way condemnation was pro-nounced upon many matters; among the rest upon all realistic wood-carv-ing ; yet the world will always recognize the marvellous beauty of therealistic carving of the Quattrocento, nor will the exquisite work of…
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