The column and the arch : essays on architectural history (1899)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. · leaf 43
history of progress and arrest,progress again, exaltation, and downfall. It has astrange sound to a modern ear when M. Foucarttalks of the feverish impulse given to build-ing under Seti and Rameses the Great; but thoughthe pace of the Nile-boat and the chariot is notthe pace of the railway and the… … > ■ I I G (A xi GK^CO-KOMAN AKCHITECTURE Greek architecture and Roman architecture arecommonly spoken of as two distinct styles, yetthey are really but stages in the continuous evolu-tion of one architecture under progressive modifi-cation, and bear much the same relation to eachother in art…
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