A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1874)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 42
and many of them are suffi-ciently large for architectural effect; but in the earlier or roundGothic period they betray a clumsiness which is the reverse ofpleasing, and in the age of the pointed Gothic the style is wire-drawnand attenuated to a degree which is almost worse than the heavinessof… … 470. Western Apse of Cathedral at Mayence. 22 EHENISH AKCHITECTURE. Part II. Baltic do we find any churches betraying that beauty of style orconstructive appropriateness which characterizes those of Cologne orthe cities to the southward of that town.1 A good deal of the heaviness of the northern…
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