Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 128
ught to everything which couldbe called classical, the eclipse ofold models and traditional ideaswould never have become so com-plete and disastrous as it did. It was disastrous in many ways.It brought into fashion a style ofbuilding unsuited to the habits ofthe English people and the climateA of… … -ST. GEORGE S HALL, LIVER-POOL, (elmes.) ART IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND in inferior materials. The lastevil, however, may have been ablessing in disguise, for the brickand stucco in which so muchpseudo-classical building of theearly nineteenth century wascarried out is making our taskeasier in…
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