A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 270
nglish architecture. Attimes it has shown wide departures from thecontemporaiy phases of the English type, bothin spirit and detail ; but these departures hardlyconstitute a distinct style. Ditfcrences as greatseparate the Gothic schools of the Ile-de-IVanceand Brittany, or of North and South… … SCOTLAND architecture has in i;ciicnil been more EngKshthan it has been anjthinj; else. But it has beenEnglish with a iliftercnite: more ruggeil andpicturesque, less consistent, less elegant; and,owing to scantiness of resources as nuich as toany other cause, deficient in grandeur and rich-ness.…
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