History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 341
all, quite per-fect; with crop-slits for arrows, battlements for mus-ketry, machicolations for boiling lead, and a room atthe top for drying plums; and a conservatory at thebottom, sir, with Virginian creepers up the towers;door supported by sphinxes, holding scrapers in theirforepaws, &c.… … management of some of their features, to show that anarchitect had superintended them, and sufficient tastein their interior economy, to prove that a refined in-tellect had superintended them; and had projected aVandalism, only because fancy had been followed,rather than judgment. Our country,…
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