The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 334
ould in-stantly destroy. The architecture of St, Marks, beautiful in spite of its want of purityand many anomalies, is, as an Italian says, loi grotesco,ma un groteacovmgnifico. Exhibiting a happy mixture of different styles aud ditierentmaterials; making the rules which have limited the… … is no law—sayB Charles Lamb—to judge of the lawless, or canon bywhich a dream may be criticised. Seeing, therefore, by what false criteria St. Marks has been judged, andconsequently how Ihe beautiful characteristics of ibis strange pile, havebeen misunderstood, I speak in praise of it now, out of…
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