The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 255
solely to its de-parture from tbose prescribed rules. Ou the other hand, we see edificeswhich the judgment might pronounce faultless, most correct in the propor-tions usually given to them, Uiosl perfect in the features suitable to theirparticular class, and, indeed, without any of those vagaries… … disgust, towards an object. A building, like a book or a picture, may bewithout a single absurdiiy, yet be very far from beautiful. Now, iu theworks of those men who thought for themselves, and were more ambitiousto be artists than imitators, we often find that, in departing from conven-tional…
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