Singleton, Esther, d 1930, [from old catalog] ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & co. · leaf 346
that might have beenmade by an ornament-worker who was not an architect,and who spared neither the work of his hands, nor time,nor money. Such as it is, I prefer it to those horrid, clas-sic reproductions, so beastly, so flat, so cold and so tire-some, such as are built by pedants and those who… … I THE PALACE OF THE BOSPHORUS 261 This naive ignorance displayed upon so gigantic a scalehas its charm ; it is probable that the bold builders of ourcathedrals knew little more, and their works are not the lessadmirable for that. Along the whole length of the palace, there runs a plat-form,…
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