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The music of the eye; or, Essays on the principles of the beauty and perfection of architecture, as founded on and deduced from reason and analogy, and adapted to what may be traced of the ancient theories of taste, in the three first chapters of Vitruvius .. (1831)

Legh, Peter · London, W. Walker [etc.] · leaf 354

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rmer ofwhich appear to grow out of the latter ; in the caseof mouldings this can hardly be done ; so that hereit is obviously more dangerous to introduce too many,than too few ornaments ; the pruning-hook is morenecessary than the hot bed and nursery for them ;the man of taste is more inclined to…

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